An 11-year-old girl who was mistaken for an adult, handcuffed and admitted to a mental health facility was given at least two ...

Health NZ has apologised after an 11-year-old girl was mistaken for a 20-year-old woman and admitted to a mental health ...

After years trying to get her son help for his acute mental illness, Tatiana Leone, a single mom from Bremerton, learned ...

Police have revealed more information about a deadly struggle between Philadelphia police officers and a man being committed ...

Involuntary commitment of severely mentally ill people should be a last resort. Let’s build more first resort solutions.

Chris Schweikart admitted he strangled a man in the bathroom of a Veterans Affairs hospital, but even prosecutors believed he ...

On arrival at the hospital officers decided to put ... Gemmell said the 20-year-old woman was not in a mental health facility at the time of the incident. A local woman was thought to be a ...

Calling the dangerous conditions in for-profit psychiatric hospitals an “emergency,” California’s top lawmaker on the state Senate Health Committee proposed legislation Thursday to quickly impose ...

Half a century after the state tightened the criteria for involuntary commitment, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make it easier to hospitalize mentally ill people against their will.

Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says the correct identification procedure was not followed when an 11-year-old girl was ...

Health NZ has launched an investigation after an 11-year-old girl was taken by police to a mental health facility and ...

Long duty hours, discrimination in allotment of shifts, and the "knowledge about irregularities" in the state-run hospital had been giving the 30-year-old medic extreme mental discomfort ...