title: Are seclusion rooms needed on child psychiatric units?
abstract: The prevailing assumption of the need for seclusion rooms in child psychiatric inpatient units is questioned and the experience of such a unit that operated with no seclusion room is described.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D008884:Milieu Therapy; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012934:Social Isolation