Lead author Dr Cindy Towns, of the Department of Medicine, Wellington, says a lack of psychogeriatric beds means the health system is pressuring medical wards to admit and manage psychiatric ...

It fills a gap in community need, according to Integrative Behavioral Health Services Chief Innovation Officer Jamie Scott, serving those who need mental health care but don’t meet the criteria for ...

For inmates deemed incompetent to stand trial, they can spend years waiting in jail for a forensic state hospital bed to ...

Rahman, a mental health worker, is known as “the Mother of ARF” (short for the Behavioral Health Center’s Adult Residential Facility). She’s worked there for 24 years. San Francisco’s Department of ...

Police cannot bring someone in for sobering unless they volunteer to go. In most cases, if police run into someone who is too ...

Oregon lawmakers are moving forward with a sprawling bill aimed at making it easier to force treatment on people with severe ...

After several attempts over many years, the Legislature appears poised to pass a bill that would change the laws governing how Oregonians can be committed to involuntary mental health treatment. House ...

Kansas' ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender minors takes effect next year. This family is trying to ...

A new law in Florida aims to provide mental health support to inmates, offering help instead of punishment. Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Tristin Murphy Act on Wednesday. It's named after Tristin ...

In experiments with healthy volunteers undergoing functional MRI imaging, scientists have found increased activity in two ...