Israel has about 230 "clients"�full-time students at the Rotenberg Center�who are mentally retarded, developmentally disabled with diseases like autism, or have been diagnosed with ailments such as depression, schizophrenia, or conduct disorder.
How exactly is it that abuses can be prevented? I know people who went to schools where corporal punishment was in place, and staff at those schools definitely abused their power. And these were "normal" children. How can abuses of children with these kind of disorders be prevented.
I have much more to say about this, but I haven't thought it through properly. I would say that even if it could be tightly controlled that kind of treatment of the mentally ill would constitute an abuse in itself. I will probably post something (publicly) about it on my livejournal later.
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Date: 2006-10-12 10:49 am (UTC)How exactly is it that abuses can be prevented? I know people who went to schools where corporal punishment was in place, and staff at those schools definitely abused their power. And these were "normal" children. How can abuses of children with these kind of disorders be prevented.
I have much more to say about this, but I haven't thought it through properly. I would say that even if it could be tightly controlled that kind of treatment of the mentally ill would constitute an abuse in itself. I will probably post something (publicly) about it on my livejournal later.