A United Nations human rights body has criticized the United Kingdom government for “involuntary, compulsory treatment and detention” of people with disabilities inside and outside hospitals and urged ...

A groundbreaking Bill that would give mental health patients more control over their treatment is edging closer to becoming law. The landmark Mental Health Bill seeks to amend the 1983 Act, which laid ...

Hundreds of detentions under the Mental Health Act were recorded in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly last year, new figures show.

A woman has been sectioned under the mental health act after allegedly lunging at a woman leaving a mosque with a pair of scissors in Liverpool. Police responded to reports that a 44-year-old was ...

The Community Mental Health Act was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on Oct 31, 1963, 23 days before he was assassinated. His intention was to move mental health care for patients from ...

The headquarters for CCHR Florida are located in downtown Clearwater. The mental health law currently allows for individuals of all ages, including children, to be taken into custody and sent for an ...