AVERSIVE CONDITIONING and Physical Restraint Policy

January 10 2002

No employee, volunteer or agent of the Kenora Association for Community Living shall permit aversive conditioning techniques as described below, or will such techniques be tolerated in any service program of this association.

Aversive conditioning which involves some or all of the following:

Systematic infliction of physical pain, illness, physical and/or emotional trauma.

Dehumanization of the individual.

Techniques inappropriate for the individual's age.

Treatment out of proportion to the target behaviour.

Procedure which are normally unacceptable for non-handicapped individuals and, in particular, social segregation, social isolation, verbal abuse, electrical shock, mechanical restraint, water/lemon juice spray, and noxious stimulation (taste, smell, or noise).

No employee, volunteer or agent of the Kenora Association for Community Living shall permit the following in any service program of this association:

Corporal punishment of a child

Deliberate harsh or degrading measures to be used on a child that would humiliate or undermine a child's self-respect

Lock an individual for the purpose of confinement in a room

Apply physical restraints to any individual