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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the second time in less than a year, Carilion Clinic is facing an investigation into the death of a mental health patient under its care. Although details remain sketchy, Carilion spokesman Eric ...

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.