LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 30, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Child and adolescent psychiatrists have issued a policy statement urging broader access to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for children and ...
LOS ANGELES, Calif., April 14, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) International, a mental health industry watchdog, strongly rejects a recent joint statement ...
CCHR helped secure the first bans on electroshock for minors—California (1976) and Texas (1993). The World Health Organization declared in 2005 that there are no indications for ECT on minors and that ...
Los Angeles, CA, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Citizens Commission on Human Rights International, a mental health industry watchdog, announced that Ireland has banned the use of electroshock ...
Los Angeles, CA, Aug. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) highlights a groundbreaking University of Houston study (forthcoming) that contradicts the 80 ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), used on at least 100,000 Americans each year, has been associated with significant adverse effects, including memory loss, difficulty concentrating, emotional blunting ...
In Hargrave v. Vermont, a federal appeals court rejected a state scheme that stripped involuntarily committed psychiatric ...
The mental health industry watchdog updates its Human Rights Declaration and Psychiatric Living Will, urging individuals to ...
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