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(7) ‘‘Child Care Institution’’ means a private residential group care facility, or public residential group care facility which accommodates no more than twenty-five children, and is licensed by the Agency. The setting does not include wilderness camps or training schools, nor does it include any facility that exists primarily for the detention or correction of children. (8) ‘‘Commercial Sex Act’’ means any sex act for which anything of value is given, promised or received, directly or indirectly, by any person. (9) ‘‘Corporal punishment’’ means physical punishment inflicted directly upon the body. (10) ‘‘CSEC’’ means Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. (11) ‘‘De-escalation’’ means behavior that is intended to escape escalation of conflicts. It also refers to approaches in conflict resolution. De-escalation techniques may use verbal and non-verbal cues. (12) ‘‘Department’’ means the Department of Social Services. (13) ‘‘Fictive kin’’ means an individual who is not related by birth, adoption, or marriage to a child, but who has an emotionally significant relationship with the child. (14) ‘‘Gender identity’’ means a person’s internal identification or self-image as male or female, which is usually established by age three. (15) ‘‘Group care’’ means the care and services provided by group care facilities and child care institutions. (16) ‘‘Group care facility’’ means a residential organization, including residential institutions, residential facilities, and child care institutions, licensed by the Department to provide temporary or long-term, full-time residential care for children on a year-round basis, emergency shelters, and group homes. State contracts may also further categorize group care facilities by population and services provided. Boarding schools that do not operate year-round or that do not offer services beyond those associated with school programming are not encompassed within these regulations. All group care facilities are considered ‘‘residential institutions’’ for purposes of S.C. Code Section 63–7–1210, governing institutional abuse and neglect. (17) ‘‘Infant’’ means a child under one year of age. (18) ‘‘Licensing agency’’ or ‘‘agency’’ means the South Carolina Department of Social Services. (19) ‘‘LGBTQv’’ means lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning or other sexual identities. (20) ‘‘Sex Trafficking’’ means the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a person for a commercial sex act. For minors, under the age of 18, there is no requirement of force, fraud, coercion or inclusion of a third party. No child or youth under the age of 18 can consent to commercial sex. (21) ‘‘Victim of Child Trafficking’’ - a minor who is under 18 years old who is sex trafficked or labor trafficked as defined in S.C. Code Section 16–3–1210. (22) ‘‘Normalcy’’ means a child’s ability to easily engage in healthy and age or developmentally appropriate activities that promote his or her well-being, such as participation in social, scholastic, and enrichment activities. (23) ‘‘Program director’’ means the person responsible for coordinating the general management, administration, and care of the children of a facility in accordance with licensing requirements and policies established by the advisory board. (24) ‘‘Psychotropic medication’’ means any drug that affects the mind and is used to manage inappropriate behavior or psychiatric symptoms and may include an anti-psychotic, an antidepres- sant, lithium carbonate or a tranquilizer. (25) ‘‘Qualified Residential Treatment Program (QRTP)’’ means a program that serves children with serious emotional or behavioral disorders or disturbances. (26) ‘‘Residential Group Care Organization’’ means child care institutions, residential institutions, residential facilities, and group care facilities. (27) ‘‘Reasonable and prudent parent standard’’ means the standard characterized by careful and sensible parental decisions that maintain the health, safety, and best interests of a child while at the same time encouraging the emotional and developmental growth of the child, that a caregiver shall