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Seven deaths arising from critical incidents recorded at asylum seeker centres last year
Total of 55 critical incidents occurred with 25 of those linked to mental health or self-harm and 23 to violence towards ...
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Ambulances called 166 times to asylum site with ‘alarming mental health crisis’
A GP supporting asylum seekers who live there said she believes a high number of calls were likely to be linked to mental health and that she and her team had personally called 999 for some asylum ...
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From the Argives: The Atwater Insane Asylum Studies
On Jan. 9, 1901, The Argus published an unattributed article entitled “Report of Professor Atwater’s Food Investigations” to ...
Psychology Today4dOpinion
The Origin of Community-Based Mental Health Treatment
To understand the rise and fall of county mental health systems, it is necessary to understand the history of the asylum and ...
Voxeurop2dOpinion
Migration and mental health: the great unknown of asylum policy
Following a spate of knife attacks and car rammings, there has been much predictable speculation about an intrinsic link ...
‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums
State-run asylums were Ireland’s ‘largest form of institutional confinement’ but they have never been subjected to a ...