Section 16.04.18.458 - BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT AND DISCIPLINE POLICY01.Documentation. An organization must explain the policy to the child considering their age and level of understanding. The parents or guardians and child will sign the policy acknowledging receipt.02.Behavior Management. An organization must have and follow a behavior management and discipline policy for children that identifies appropriate and specific methods and ensures that these methods are positive and consistent. Individualized behavior management must be based on an assessment of the child's needs, stage of development, and behavior to promote self-control, self-direction, self-esteem, and an acceptable pattern of social behavior appropriate to the child's age and development level. The policy must include the concept and application of least-restrictive effective treatment and positive reinforcements and prohibit the following:a. Physical force, except for physical restraint intervention;b. Any kind of punishment inflicted on the body, including spanking, hitting, slapping, spitting, kicking, shaking, pulling hair, pinching skin, twisting an arm or leg in a way that would cause pain or injury, kneeling or sitting on the chest, placing a choke hold, bending back a finger, and shoving or pushing a child into the wall, floor, or other stationary object;c. Cruel and unusual physical exercise, including forcing the child to take an uncomfortable position;d. Verbal abuse, ridicule, humiliation, profanity, and other forms of degradation directed at a child or a child's family;e. Confinement in an area except an area approved by the Department for confinement of a child as provided under these rules;f. Withholding of necessary food, clothing, bedding, rest, toilet use, bathing facilities, and entrance to the facility;g. Denial of visits or communication with the child's family, except as specified in the child's service plan or court order;h. Denial of necessary educational, medical, counseling, and social services;i. Disciplining a group of children or another child for the actions of one (1) child, unless the organization's policies and procedures for group behavior management and discipline are based on a nationally recognized peer group treatment model and clearly prescribe the circumstances and safeguards under which group discipline is allowed, and the discipline is supervised directly by staff;j. The placing of anything in or on a child's mouth;k. A physical work assignment that produces unreasonable discomfort;l. Requiring cold showers or otherwise using water as a form of behavior management;m. Requiring an individual to remain silent for long periods for the purpose of behavior management;n. Extensive withholding of emotional response or stimulation;o. Exploitation which includes, but is not limited to: i. Using a child's property without their consent or using a child's property in a way that is contrary to their best interests, such as expending a child's funds for the benefit of another; orii. Accepting gifts in exchange for preferential treatment of a child or in exchange for services that the facility is already obliged to provide to the child.p. Failure to provide adequate supervision, including situations where the facility's employee or volunteer is asleep or ill on the job, or is impaired due to the use of alcohol or drugs; andq. Failure to provide care and treatment as prescribed by the child's services, program, or service plan.Idaho Admin. Code r. 16.04.18.458