APA Resolution Opposing Involuntary Individual Isolation of Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings

Consistent with APA’s earlier position on this issue, the following specific recommendations provide that while Council continues to support "efforts to eliminate the practice" (APA, 2017), additional specificity is needed with respect to youth solitary confinement.

Thus, Council adopts 10 recommendations, based on a close examination of the best available science and practice in this area, and enacts these recommendations as APA policy so that APA is positioned to advocate for approaches fostering positive, preventative youth development and behavior changes in adolescence, and to advocate against harmful involuntary individual isolation of youths in carceral or detention settings.

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