Journal Urges It’s Time To Regulate Troubled Teen Behavioral Programs
CCHR says a recent Journal of Legislation article finds steps taken by 11 states and Congress are inadequate given the “sheer urgency” to curb abuse,…
CCHR Recaps Mental Health Awareness Month: The Silent Epidemic of Patient Abuse Cover-Ups
Watchdog highlights reports of patients sexually and physically assaulted, drugged, restrained, or killed, all in a single month, citing nationwide and global concerns. By CCHR…
Mental Health Awareness Month: Watchdog Blasts Ongoing Psychiatric Racism
CCHR and its Task Force Against Racism, headed by NAACP chapter president, Rev. Fred Shaw, lash out against coercive psychiatric practices that African Americans are…
CCHR Rebukes Psychiatric Association Meeting for Failure to Denounce Coercion
In the wake of the World Health Organization, World Psychiatric Association and European Psychiatric Congress condemning coercive psych practices, a mental health watchdog asks why…
CCHR Condemns Mental Health Industry Putting Children at Risk of Sexual Assault
Up to 45% of mental health inpatients have experienced sexual violence, with one hospital saying its rate of patient sexual assault was within the “industry…