Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 30 - KANSAS DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Article 60 - LICENSING OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS
Section 30-60-48 - De-escalation techniques and emergency behavioral interventions

(1) Each staff member, volunteer, and contractor shall utilize only de-escalation techniques or emergency behavioral interventions that the staff member, volunteer, or contractor has been appropriately trained in or is professionally qualified to utilize. Each use of these techniques and interventions shall be consistent with the rights of consumers as listed in K.A.R. 30-60-50.

(2) No practice utilized shall be intended to humiliate, frighten, or physically harm a consumer.

(3) No practice that becomes necessary to implement shall continue longer than necessary to resolve the behavior at issue.

(4) Physical restraint or seclusion shall be used as a method of intervention only when all other methods of de-escalation have failed and only when necessary for the protection of that consumer or others.

(5) Each instance of the utilization of a physical restraint or the use of seclusion shall be documented in the consumer's clinical record required by K.A.R. 30-60-46 and reviewed by supervising staff and the center's risk management program required by K.A.R. 30-60-56.

(6) Each instance in which the utilization of a de-escalation technique or emergency behavioral intervention results in serious injury to the consumer shall be reported to the division.