The newly reported details of patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion spanned from 2020 through 2023. The deaths happened at hospitals in every state except Alaska, with some individual ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two care workers have been charged with the ill-treatment of four people at a mental health unit which featured in an undercover BBC investigation. The Panorama programme, broadcast in 2022, revealed ...

Australia’s response to mental illness is still hospital-centric. Treating more patients in their homes is a step in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greece’s mental-health system for adolescents is in deep crisis, as highlighted by data from a recent intervention by the ...