November 21, 2011 — Editor's note: Maintaining a safe milieu on an inpatient psychiatric unit is an important aspect of delivering safe care. Seclusion and restraint should be considered a last resort ...

It was the summer of 2013, and I had just arrived in Haiti as part of a global mental health fellowship—an early-career psychiatrist fresh out of training, there to support community-based mental ...

It’s an uncomfortable image to consider: an elderly person – perhaps somebody you know – physically restrained. Maybe an aged care resident deemed likely to fall has been bound to his chair using ...