Legal
Protection and Advocacy Systems by State
Each state has a designated protection and advocacy system that offers advocacy and assistance with legal and civil rights issues pertaining to disability.
Guide on Seclusion and Restraint
National Association of State Mental Health Planning Directors Guide on Seclusion and Restraint (pdf, 246KB, 35 pages) This paper is intended to assist the attorneys and risk managers who advise behavioral health facilities. In particular,
A Silent Dilemma: Censorship Of Mental Patients By the Media
The discrimination which patients suffer at the hands of the media is of a double-edged kind. Whenever a tragedy such as what happened in Newtown, Connecticut occurs, the networks and news outlets fall
What is psychiatric malpractice?
During John's last hospitalization he felt humiliated and wronged because his psychiatrist ordered that he be put into restraints for reasons that John felt were unjustified. Mary's psychiatrist sees her for only five