1. Your idea would work, but it is simply too costly to implement, which highlights my argument.
2. You have your own interpretations shaped by your own bias, as I do mine - you choose to interpret that statement in a negative light.
3. I haven't been able to find any articles to substantiate your claim, but have found articles talking about Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), which is very different. Can you supply articles to back up your arguments? The point in any case is that it is surely less damaging than drug therapy?
4. The method is monitored carefully, but yes, perhaps the treatment is being used in ways that appear inappropriate to the majority of us. The court must allow the school to physically punish the students, and the school also obtains the parents' permission. I'd hope that the parents would have a constant and continuous say in what their child gets punished for. In any case, the parents are able to view a website detailing the punishment occasions.
At the end of the day I was simply trying to raise awareness that this was not necessarily a 'bad and evil' thing; that it is better than the alternatives, that it offers people a choice other than physical restraint and drugs, and that it has benefits for carers too.
I accept there are potential problems with the implementation, which is what the article suggests.
I would not want to see the treatment become 'standard', but I do think it has its place, when all else has failed.
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:56 pm (UTC)2. You have your own interpretations shaped by your own bias, as I do mine - you choose to interpret that statement in a negative light.
3. I haven't been able to find any articles to substantiate your claim, but have found articles talking about Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), which is very different. Can you supply articles to back up your arguments? The point in any case is that it is surely less damaging than drug therapy?
4. The method is monitored carefully, but yes, perhaps the treatment is being used in ways that appear inappropriate to the majority of us. The court must allow the school to physically punish the students, and the school also obtains the parents' permission. I'd hope that the parents would have a constant and continuous say in what their child gets punished for. In any case, the parents are able to view a website detailing the punishment occasions.
At the end of the day I was simply trying to raise awareness that this was not necessarily a 'bad and evil' thing; that it is better than the alternatives, that it offers people a choice other than physical restraint and drugs, and that it has benefits for carers too.
I accept there are potential problems with the implementation, which is what the article suggests.
I would not want to see the treatment become 'standard', but I do think it has its place, when all else has failed.