Ethical Considerations in Balancing Use of Seclusion and Restraint With Risk of COVID-19 Exposure: Recommendations for Youth Inpatient Psychiatry Units

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented unique challenges for inpatient psychiatry units (IPUs). IPUs, especially those caring for children and adolescents, rely heavily on milieu group programming to provide care and supervision for patients and have had to adapt unit policies and procedures to maintain a therapeutic milieu while minimizing COVID-19 transmission.1 Simultaneously providing care while preventing transmission of COVID-19 within IPUs is a formidable task, and many IPUs face the additional challenge of treating youth who have been exposed to, or are actively infected with, COVID-19.

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Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - May 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Alysha D. Thompson, Emily R. Berkman, Shannon Simmons, Kathryn M. Porter, Leah Kroon, Rand Goldman, Ravi S. Ramasamy Tags: Clinical Perspectives Source Type: research