When mental health patients at hospitals across the country can't be controlled, they are often locked in a room or restrained to a bed until they calm down. The process is generally seen as a last ...

Professor McSherry has received funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Mental Health Commission. The opinions expressed in this article are her own. Most developed countries ...

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier says he is worried about high rates of seclusion at two Bay of Plenty mental health facilities, particularly for Māori patients. Mr Boshier today published reports of ...

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 ...

The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Courthouse, home of the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Virginia. (Acroterion/ Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Duke University law students argued to ...

Mental patients sprinkled throughout the nation's psychiatric hospitals are being locked up alone for years despite laws aimed at preventing the practice, because medical workers say they're too ...

And it could be in use again soon. Miriam Merten. Picture: Supplied by family It was confirmed yesterday the room remained open long after the 2014 death of mother-of-two Miriam Merten. The Daily ...

Matt Hancock, the British health secretary, publicly apologized to a teenager with autism who has spent close to three years in near total seclusion. By Iliana Magra LONDON — Bethany is 18 years old.