Ein Mann aus Ontario, der 20 Jahre lang in psychiatrischer Abgeschiedenheit festgehalten wurde, erhält einen Gerichtsbeschluss für eine neue Beurteilung
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-court-of-appeal-ruling-psychiatric-assessment-isolated/
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*The ruling stated Mr. Hamblett does not contest that he is a threat to public safety, nor does he currently seek release from Waypoint. But he insisted there was an impasse in his treatment. The review board disagreed. The Ontario appeal court overruled the board, declaring its finding that there was no impasse that was unreasonable, and calling the rejection of an independent assessment plainly unreasonable.*
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Seclusion is not acceptable for anyone calm enough to request an end to it. Extended isolation drives humans mad (sadly, there is a lot of empirical evidence for this).
The point of psychiatric care is supposed to be to minimize the effect of mental illness on a patient, not amplify it because they are inconvenient to handle.
The issue with Waypoint is it doesn’t hire guards, putting nurses who are largely untrained for combat into dangerous situations. Nurses are expected to rush in to deal with very violent individuals, give them sedatives, and hull them to their room if they have a psychotic break. If this is their setup for clients who are frequently violent due to heir mental health, how can they be expected to deal with them any other way besides seclusion?
This is an older article, but things haven’t changed https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/waypoint-mental-health-workers-need-security-guards-on-wards-586359361.html