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Seclusion of children and adolescents: Psychopathological and family factors
Author(s) -
Gullick Karen,
McDermott Brett,
Stone Prue,
Gibbon Peter
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.911
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1447-0349
pISSN - 1445-8330
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0979.2005.00353.x
Subject(s) - seclusion , psychopathology , psychiatry , mental health , medicine , psychology , clinical psychology
This paper describes the use of seclusion in a child and adolescent inpatient unit, including precipitating events, management strategies, details of seclusion episodes and individual and family risk factors. Inpatient ward documentation of seclusion episodes, demographic data and measures of individual psychopathology and impairment, parent mental health, life events and family functioning were used to compare secluded, non‐secluded and outpatient groups. Secluded individuals had elevated psychopathology compared with non‐secluded inpatients and outpatients. Their families reported poorer parental mental health and family functioning and more recent stressful life events. The results indicate that seclusion is most common among high‐risk inpatients.