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A Brief History Of Restraint and Seclusion In Our Schools

The inhumane methods of restraint and seclusion came from the ignorance of generations that failed to understand basic psychology or neuroscience. Those methods followed what has been the organic flow of policy from mental institutions to prisons and from prisons to schools.

A Brief History Of Restraint and Seclusion In Our Schools

The inhumane methods of restraint and seclusion came from the ignorance of generations that failed to understand basic psychology or neuroscience. Those methods followed what has been the organic flow of policy from mental institutions to prisons and from prisons to schools.

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