Cliff Detty, 46, of Santa Maria, died April 29 while in seclusion and under restraint at the Psychiatric Health Facility operated by the Santa Barbara County Department of Alcohol, Drug and Mental ...

Seclusion is a protocol used in hospital settings when a patient is displaying unsafe behaviors. Many organizations, including U.S. health care accrediting body the Joint Commission, say that it ...

As Gov. Kathy Hochul pushes a $1 billion plan to overhaul New York’s mental health care system, psychiatric patients at 13 hospitals statewide are being placed in restraints at rates above the ...

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 ...

Trapped. This single word describes the feeling that came to me from each of my adolescent hospitalizations. The double doors, separated with a buzzer to keep us from escaping, gave a feeling of being ...

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's ombudswoman released a damning report Tuesday on the province's use of seclusion rooms and physical restraints in adult psychiatric facilities, practices she said ...

In the wake of a student death in 2018, Davis Joint Unified agreed to change its policies, training and record-keeping related to secluding and restraining students with disabilities, the U.S.

This week, Uganda’s appeals court is set to hear an important case on a government hospital’s use of seclusion and restraints on people with psychosocial disabilities. In 2015, Benon Kabale, a human ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says Michigan should improve how it regulates the usage of a controversial tactic educators deployed nearly 94,000 times since lawmakers tried to tamp down on the maneuvers, ...

While physically restraining or separating students from their classmates should only be used as a "last resort" by schools, it still happened thousands of times at schools across the state in 2022-23 ...