A sheriff says a teenager's "wholly inappropriate" placement in an adult psychiatric ward may have contributed to his reluctance to speak to health professionals before his suicide. Harris Macdonell ...

The city also announced plans to expand residential care for elderly and mentally ill adults in two new assisted living ...

San Diego County reached an inflection point around mental health care in 2018, when Tri-City Medical Center shuttered its 18-bed psychiatric unit. Directors of the Oceanside hospital said the closure ...

Being a patient in a hospital psychiatric ward or mental health facility can be a deeply lonely experience during the holidays. Katherine Ponte, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine ...

All too often in popular culture, hospitals that provide desperately needed help for patients having mental health crises are turned into the stuff of jokes and nightmares. I'm hoping that ...

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios has revealed he spent time in a psychiatric ward following a loss at Wimbledon in 2019 because of suicidal thoughts. The comments from Kyrgios, widely published in ...