4.48 INPATIENT UNIT STRATEGIES TO TREAT AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS IN CHILDHOOD: A CLINICAL REVIEW

Children and adolescents are commonly admitted to mental health inpatient units for reactive and impulsive aggression, but there are few data to guide treatment and management of outbursts during a hospitalization. Avoiding seclusion and restraint appropriately motivates treatment, but the question of how to better manage such children on inpatient units has rarely been addressed. The goal of this poster is to present evidence behind inpatient...