Story of Hope From Child & Adolescent Inpatient Services
Story of Hope from Child & Adolescent Inpatient Services – Staff shares a story about a sixteen-year-old girl who was abused and how Philhaven’s staff helped her find hope, healing and wholeness.
Mental Health Court marks individual successes
Clatsop County Circuit Court Judge Cindee Matyas congratulates Kimbirlli Altig and hands her a certificate Monday after she completed the county's yearlong mental health treatment court program. Altig was one of four to be recognized during the … Read more on Daily Astorian
Report: Military doctors have abused detainees, breached ethics
?Did not appropriately provide mental health treatment for detainees with psychological conditions caused by interrogations. ?Are inappropriately acting as agents for Guantanamo Bay Detention Center by participating in force-feeding. “The American … Read more on Military Times
Mental health questions
A key part of the oversight of compulsory treatment of mental health patients appears to fall short of acceptable standards for exercising such power, a new book on New Zealand's mental health law suggests. Dunedin yesterday hosted the first of five … Read more on Otago Daily Times
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