New guidance from World Health Organization and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also calls for laws banning...
World Health Organization Calls Involuntary Electroshock Treatment a Human Rights Abuse
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Involuntary Treatment Articles
Human Rights Group Calls on American Psychiatric Association to Oppose Coercive Mental Health Practices
UN bodies say involuntary mental health practices harm physical and mental health and must end. Citizens Commission on...
World Health Organization Calls for End to Abusive Mental Health Practices It Says Are All Too Common
Report cites evidence indicates that involuntary mental health treatment is ineffective and can worsen an individual’s...
Study Adds to Research Showing Involuntary Psychiatric Hospitalization Does More Harm Than Good
The proven harm of forced behavioral health treatment raises question of whether the treating psychiatrists violate...
Mental Health Month: Human Rights Group Renews Call for End of Coercive Practices in the Mental Health System
Recent research found no benefit to patients’ mental health or any lower risk of suicides from involuntary psychiatric...
Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Did Not Result in Improved Patient Outcomes or Lower Risk of Death, Researchers Say
The World Health Organization also cites no proven benefit, but significant evidence of harm from coercive mental...
Call Tracing Considered for New 988 Suicide Hotline May Result in Too Many Forced Psychiatric Hospitalizations
The new national suicide prevention hotline, “988,” due to begin service in July, was intended to be an...
Young People Admitted to Psychiatric Facilities Face Higher Risk of Self-Harm After Discharge, Researchers Say
Other research also found that psychiatric hospitalization – and even psychiatric treatment without hospitalization –...
New Report on Psychiatric Institutionalization of Political Dissidents in China Raises Human Rights Concerns
World Health Organization (WHO) issued guidelines and call to UN countries to ensure mental health services are free...