Introduction Over 100 000 service users are admitted to acute mental health wards annually, many involuntarily. Wards are under incredible pressure due to high bed occupancy rates and staff shortages.

Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center, a psychiatric residential facility in Cañon City that serves youth ages 10 to 18, ...

WCVB NEWSCENTER 5. SARA. THANK YOU. FIVE INVESTIGATES BRITTANY JOHNSTON HAS BEEN DIGGING INTO HOW RESTRAINTS ARE USED IN MASSACHUSETTS AND HOW DANGEROUS THEY CAN BE. BRITTANY MARIA. STUDENTS ARE ...

CAÑON CITY, Colo. — Disability Law Colorado (DLC) has released a new public report detailing concerning conditions at the Southern Peaks Regional Treatment Center in Cañon City, specifically focusing ...

CHEYENNE – The Laramie County School District 1 Board of Trustees voted unanimously to pass an amended “Seclusion, Restraint, Forcible Physical Contact and Corporal Punishment” policy during their ...

The program reduced self-harm, seclusion, and restraint. Now we have a better idea of how it was able to achieve that goal—and the barriers preventing it from being used more often. A study from 2023 ...

From electroshock of five-year-olds to deaths in US for-profit hospitals, CCHR told the UN that psychiatry’s coercive practices amount to torture and must be banned worldwide. On August 11 at the ...

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 ...