Hospital leaders are familiar with emergency department boarding, but a different capacity challenge is growing in EDs as more people arrive needing not medical care, but a safe place to stay.

A Maryland school district is among six others that were picked to go to trial for a lawsuit that claims several social media ...

Gregory Zecca is being monitored because he is so devastated by the loss that there are concerns he may attempt suicide.

Lawmakers say this may be just the first step in recognizing more than 1,600 patients buried in and around the Northern State ...

Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used ...

Despite decades of concern, restrictive practices remain common. A compassion-based approach could help change that.

For me, grief isn’t linear,” writes the younger Williams. “It loops and echoes. It softens, then crescendos. But alongside it ...

Dog the Bounty Hunter's Son Placed on Psychiatric Hold After Allegedly Accidentally Shooting His 13-Year-Old Son ...

The new Connecticut law also limits “a health carrier’s use of step therapy,” which is a prescription drug protocol that ...

Mental health support isn’t just a cause—it’s personal for Marc and Jennifer Saulnier, owners of Nikanos Mediterranean Bar & ...

A Marion County judge ordered that David Lee Roberts undergo a psychiatric exam before his Aug. 21 execution date.

A Michigan House subcommittee held hearings on the problems created by a lack of psychiatric beds in the state.