Within Your Practice

• Shift your perspective from viewing seclusion as a discrete, singular risk-management event to a complex process embedded within a broader continuum of care. Seclusion requires trauma-informed, team-based responses and comprehensive debriefing.

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• Seclusion can be a traumatizing experience for the person in seclusion, and for everyone on the unit. Treat its use as a critical incident that requires follow-up.

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• View the reduction of seclusion use and the minimization of its harms as a shared professional responsibility – one that spans before, during, and after any seclusion event.