We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...

Black patients presenting with psychiatric disorders to hospital emergency departments (EDs) across the US have significantly higher rates of chemical restraint than their White counterparts, new ...

The inspection of the Melville Unit in Edinburgh was the first in a series of visits to psychiatric wards ordered following ...

In the first five months of 2024, staff physically restrained patients an average of 150 times per month, or five times in a ...

Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center, a psychiatric residential facility in Cañon City that serves youth ages 10 to 18, ...

The use of physical restraint on children at Edinburgh’s in-patient mental health unit needs improvement, a report has said. An unannounced inspection of the Melville Unit at the city’s Royal Hospital ...

The Queensland Government has launched an investigation into Child Youth Mental Health Services on the Gold Coast following a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese campaign group whose members include lawyers and academics called on Wednesday for a change in psychiatric hospitals' practice of putting patients under prolonged ...

The Council of Europe adopted a resolution that called on its member nations to immediately start a transition to the abolition of coercive mental health practices because of the overwhelmingly ...