title: Developing a restraint-reduction program for child/adolescent inpatient treatment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Meeting mandated guidelines to reduce, if not eliminate, the use of restraints with children and adolescents hospitalized on inpatient psychiatric units.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To present eight promising options for restraint reduction with inpatient children and adolescents, and the research that supports their efficacy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of the literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By combining what is known about child/adolescent restraint use with restraint-reduction research in the adult field, several options for restraint reduction can be derived.
authors.affiliation: Rush College of Nursing, Chicago, IL, USA. kdelaney@rushu.rush.edu
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Delaney
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009746:Nursing, Team; D010343:Patient Admission; D016730:Program Development; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012149:Restraint, Physical / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States