As Kenneth Hass slid into his seventh month locked alone in a small room at the Oregon State Hospital last year, he no longer resembled the witty young man his sister and some nurses remembered.

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 ...

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) has published its findings after a Mental Health Services Safe Delivery of Care ...

A Mountain Top man and former CEO for state-run psych hospitals has gained international recognition for a lifetime of work in ending long-used seclusion and restraint practices on patients in ...

Mental health patients in New York spent a total of nearly 11,900 hours in restraints and 9,000 hours in seclusion while in psychiatric units in 2021, the latest federal data show But the true scope ...

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 ...