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The Atlantic · Jul 16, 2023

How Victorian Women Were Oppressed Through the Use of Psychiatry

Victorian Lettering ... (At the time, Illinois law did not require proof of mental illness for a husband to put his wife away.) Portrait of Elizabeth Packard from her book, Marital Power ...

ABC News (Melbourne) on MSN.com · Feb 16, 2025

Victorian mental health nurses feeling unsafe, unsupported amid frequent assaults in hospital wards

Working as a mental health nurse within a psychiatric ward at a Victorian hospital, she has become immune to occupational violence which, she says, is inflicted almost daily. "I hate it.

Victoria News · 1d

Victoria charity founder, immigrant centre honoured for mental health work

Fateh Care Charity and Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees win Island Health community service awards

The Victoria Advocate · 5d

In a broken mental health system, a tiny jail cell becomes the institution of last resort

The Lake County jail has two roughly 30-square-foot cells used to isolate prisoners, including people in a mental health crisis. Some are held there for months as they wait for an open bed at the ...

The Canadian Press on MSN.com · 8d

Festival suspect had mental health team, no sign he needed hospitalization: ministry

The man accused of killing 11 people at a Vancouver festival was under the care of a mental health team, but there was nothing to indicate a change in his condition that warranted involuntarily hospitalization,

The Age · Apr 7, 2025

Four-year delay in transferring power from police to paramedics for mental health callouts

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A key royal commission recommendation for paramedics to take over mental health callouts from police has been delayed to 2027, four ...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation · Apr 8, 2025

Youth Live4Life program helping teens to deal with mental health issues

"The Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System interim report … showed that more than 63 per cent of young people [in rural areas] that were trying to access a mental health service ...

SBS · Oct 7, 2024

'More accessible, person-centred care': Advocates welcome new strategy on eating disorders in Victoria

Victorian Mental Health Minister Ingrid Stitt says it is important to counter the ignorance and stigma that prevent people from seeking help. "The more we can talk about eating disorders and ...