Restraints

A bottom-up approach to understanding the history of asylums allows us to learn from past successes and failures in the mental health system.

A new scale has been developed and validated to examine beliefs held by mental health professionals towards service users’ rights.

Refugees and first-generation immigrants of African descent are at greater risk of experiencing medical coercion when compared to immigrants of other visible minority communities in Canada.

A review of the literature demonstrates that coercive practices lack empirical support and violate human rights.

Dr. Dainius Pūras argues that the status quo in mental health treatment is no longer acceptable and demands political action to promote human rights.

In an effort to reduce coercion, researchers isolate associated factors including age, relationship status, location, and diagnosis.

A discussion of the role of epistemic injustice in the experiences of patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.

How people are treated after being hospitalized can either help them to overcome the traumatic effects of coercion or make them worse.

Three phase III clinical trials assessing the efficacy of Lundbeck’s investigational drug idalopirdine for Alzheimer’s disease have failed

BPS releases report encouraging behavioral interventions for people with dementia, rather than antipsychotics

The results of the cross-sectional study show that U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) owned hospitals perform worst on most measures.