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 Care Quality Commission (CQC) has revealed widespread allegations of physical and sexual assaults by staff on patients at ...

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 Mental Health Commission looked at the use of practices such as seclusion, physical restraint and mechanical restraint across 66 inpatient ...

Wolston Park closed in 2001, but, for decades, it has been at the centre of disturbing allegations of abuse and chemical ...

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 ...

Westchester Medical Center Health Network hospitals discharged patients with active suicidal ideation or other emergency psychiatric conditions without proper stabilization, a NY AG probe revealed.

Since the 1980s, psychiatry has been dominated by what we might call a ‘disease‑entity’ model of mental health problems. In ...

A Massachusetts man has died after allegedly being place in a chokehold by a Cape Cod Hospital security guard. The Hyannis, Mass.-based hospital is denying any use of excessive force in the incident.

The family of a mental patient who died in law-enforcement custody last year at Central State Hospital is re-stressing its call for U.S. Justice Department involvement after Dinwiddie’s top prosecutor ...

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 ...

Practices such seclusion and restraint in mental health centres have fallen to the lowest level since national reporting began. A report from watchdog, the Mental Health Commission, looked at the use ...