When nursing homes, designed to care for older adults, begin housing aggressive patients with severe behavioral and ...

Research suggests that psychiatric wards with open doors are associated with reductions in conflictive events, self-harm behavior, restrictive measures, and forced medication.

Patient-initiated brief admission as a complement to outpatient psychiatric care is appreciated by nurses and patients, and can reduce levels of anxiety in people with emotional instability and ...

Mia, an 18-year-old inpatient on a psychiatric ward, likes to pull pranks on her nurses.But it wasn’t until her most recent admission to a mental health facility in Cornwall that she started ...

An inquiry into a teenager's suicide has concluded that too often young people are being placed in "wholly inappropriate" units.

I am immensely grateful that the psychiatric ward was life-saving, in no small part because of incredible Harvard administrators who advocated for me. However, I am also deeply troubled that the ...

Going to a psychiatric ward for the first time was an experience Kat could never have fully prepared for. Kat recalls: "It was terrifying, I was placed in a hospital three-plus hours away from all ...