What is it about?
The article analyzes the use of physical and mechanical restraint in human services. More specifically, it focuses on the human costs of using restraint, the question of whether it really “works,” what it does to the restrained person, and how it affects the relationship between the “restrainer” and the “restrained.”
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Why is it important?
For the most part, the human service field has couched the issue of restraint use in a narrow rights perspective that tends to cloud the deeper issues. However, something more important than rights is at stake. On a fundamental level, human service restraint use is much more of a moral issue than a rights issue.
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As long as services are less conscious of, unconscious of, or ignore the moral domain in relation to restraint use, this issue will never be resolved in accordance with the noble ideals of offering service to vulnerable people who are societally devalued.
Dr Marc Tumeinski
Anna Maria College
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This page is a summary of: Problems Associated With Use of Physical and Mechanical Restraints in Contemporary Human Services, Mental Retardation, February 2005, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD),
DOI: 10.1352/0047-6765(2005)432.0.co;2.
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