Smith Malcolm L, Bowman Karen Myers
University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA.
Child Welfare. 2009;88(3):57-83.
This qualitative investigation explores the experiences of both children who were physically restrained in a juvenile facility and that of the adult professionals who restrained them. Among the major themes identified were the rationalizations of safety and noncompliance for restraint use by the adults. Children associated fear, anger, and retraumatization with the experience of being restrained. Both the children who were restrained and the adults who restrained them identified lingering emotional and behavioral postrestraint effects. Restraint incidents were found to follow a predictable 10-layered behavioral spiral. Implications for practice and further research are explored.
这项定性研究探讨了在青少年拘留所中受到身体约束的儿童以及实施约束的成年专业人员的经历。确定的主要主题包括成年人对使用约束措施的安全及不服从而进行的辩解。儿童将恐惧、愤怒和再次受创与被约束的经历联系在一起。受到约束的儿童和实施约束的成年人都指出了约束后挥之不去的情绪和行为影响。研究发现约束事件遵循可预测的十层行为螺旋。文中还探讨了对实践和进一步研究的启示。
