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seclusion room
DCHP-3 (Mar 2023)
Non-Canadianism
This is a word that our editors have determined is not a Canadianism.
1an. — Healthcare
a place to isolate a violent or extremely disruptive patient.
Quotations
1992
Occasionally a patient is dangerously aggressive. Such behavior may result in physical harm to the patient, other patients or staff. For everyone's protection, we may place the patient in a seclusion room. To do otherwise would be clinically and legally inappropriate.
2003
Mousseau was eventually restrained, suffering a black eye in the effort, and was taken to a seclusion room.
He was charged with assault, but has not yet gone to trial.
2013
RPC staff told Pate that the woman, who had been arrested and charged with taking a social worker hostage in Nova Scotia, was in the seclusion room because she'd tried to harm herself.
The centre insists it's not the same as segregation, but rather a clinical setting with observation by psychiatrists once every 24 hours.
1bn. — Education
a place to isolate a violent or extremely disruptive student.
Quotations
2010
A specialized Vancouver facility for 16 of the most disruptive elementary students in the school district has seen a dramatic spike in the use of its seclusion room to control children acting out violently.
Staff placed students in a segregation or "calm-down" room at Alderwood Family Development Centre 64 times in 2008, compared to only eight times the previous year. The increase was so dramatic it prompted a review of the practice.
2015
The school districts use of a locked seclusion room gained national media attention in the case of Deacon Graham, a seven-year-old with Down Syndrome, who was placed in such a room on more than one occasion without the consent of his parents.
2018
The room goes by many names, including isolation room, seclusion room, time-out room, safe room, or calm room.
Institutions use them to either give an out-of-control person a place to calm down, or as a punishment for their behaviour, said Dick Sobsey, University of Alberta professor emeritus in educational psychology.
2019
Put my kid in a seclusion room and watch how fast you will have a lawsuit on your hands.The Alberta government introduced new standards for the use of seclusion rooms after overturning the previous government’s decision to ban the punishment. Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said allowing teachers to use seclusion rooms gives them the tools needed to ensure a safe learning environment.
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