Protection from institutionalization for disabled people is a right that has been federally guaranteed since a 1999 Supreme Court case. Now, Colorado disability advocates are one step closer to ...

The findings of the review emphasize that the term 'institutionalization' in modern psychiatry goes beyond definitions based on bricks and mortar, but rather includes ideas about staff's ...

The President of the United States recently suggested we bring back institutions to house the mentally ill to help solve the country’s gun-violence epidemic. I beg to differ. Instead, I support the ...

Those in emergency management and public safety try to include vulnerable populations in pre-disaster planning to account for their needs and keep them safe during emergencies, including people with ...

President Trump wants far more homeless Americans with addiction and mental illness sent to institutions. The idea is spelled out in one of his executive orders. NPR's Brian Mann spent time with a ...

In a recent message to supporters, former President Donald Trump declared that, if he were again elected to the White House, he would “use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our ...

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Four different meanings of how 'institutionalization' in psychiatry is conceptualized were identified from sixty-one papers across eleven different countries, i.e. bricks and mortar of care ...

Judy Thompson fought to have her son, Alton, institutionalized when his mental illness spiraled out of control. The experience left both mother and son wary of the "civil confinement" process.