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

A federal inspection determined patients’ rights were violated at the South Dakota Human Services Center in Yankton — a state-run mental health hospital — when workers misused restraints to control ...

CCHR says legislative protections are needed prohibiting chemical and physical restraint and punitive seclusion rooms, not only in the U.S. but globally. Mental health industry watchdog says ...

Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit which featured in an ...

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 ...

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

Introduction Over 100 000 service users are admitted to acute mental health wards annually, many involuntarily. Wards are under incredible pressure due to high bed occupancy rates and staff shortages.

Jason Pratt Kennedy was a talented financial analyst and musician who also enjoyed tennis, softball and bowling and his cat, Frosty. He also had bipolar disorder. Kennedy died on Aug. 15, 2022, after ...

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 ...