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 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 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 ...

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 ...

But efforts to replace the old facility — a cramped, aging building from the 1970s that was planned by an architect who designed prisons — appear to have hit a roadblock. An architectural firm hired ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The state’s watchdog agency for people with disabilities has found that a for-profit psychiatric hospital in Southern California abused patients for years by excessively and improperly strapping them ...

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

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 ...