Committed: Trauma, Mental Health And The Baker Act
Hartsfield Elementary School Hartsfield Elementary School in Tallahassee employs a concept called conscious discipline to help address early childhood trauma and keep children from being committed under the Baker Act. To keep children from being committed under the Baker Act, some schools are addressing early childhood trauma and changing their approach to student discipline. Among the best predictors of whether a child will be taken for an involuntary psychiatric exam under the Baker Act in Florida, is a history of trauma. But school psychologists, who know most about how to treat early chil...