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Wellnest, formerly known as Los Angeles Child Guidance Clinic, takes a family-driven and culturally respectful approach to providing behavioral healthcare and trauma-focused therapy.

Tracy A. Pierce, a spokeswoman for Duval County Public Schools, said it was Child Guidance, a crisis-response firm, that decided to have the girl admitted to the mental health center — not the school.

The school district said that the officers in the video were not present “during the events which motivated the school to call Child Guidance” or when the health counselor “was intervening with the student.”

“When a student’s behavior presents a risk of self-harm or harm to others, the school district’s procedure is to call Child Guidance, our crisis-response provider,” Ms. Pierce said in a statement on Monday.

His mother, Betty, was a successful novelist; his father was a founder of Britain’s child guidance clinics.