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CCHR wants electroshocking children prohibited under child abuse laws

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 ...
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CCHR Condemns Global Psychiatric Effort to Expand Electroshocking Children

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 ...
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University Findings Undermine Core Electrical Theory Behind Electroshock Therapy—Prompting CCHR's Renewed Calls for a Ban

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 ...
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Ireland Bans Electroshock Treatment on Minors: A Major Human Rights Advance, Citizens Commission on Human Rights International Says

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 ...
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University Findings Undermine Core Electrical Theory Behind Electroshock Therapy—Prompting Citizens Commission on Human Rights International to Renew Its Call for a Ban

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 ...