Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others.

But the tide has turned against those strategies in the Midwest and throughout the nation. They are viewed increasingly as measures that cause physical and psychological damage to children, many of ...

We’ve probably all seen TV shows or movies such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (starring Jack Nicholson), where an individual with a mental illness is placed in a straitjacket in a psychiatric ...