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Call for Intervention in Case of Boy Left in Windowless Irish Hospital Room for 56 Days

Mad in America

The child is among those impacted by failings in the North Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), with the HSE last year apologising for deficits in care he received, including the inappropriate prescribing of heavy anti-psychotic medication.

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Press Statement: College President at NCHD Conference calls 2025 a ‘pivotal year’ for mental health services in Ireland

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) states that no one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Furthermore, the ECHR makes no provision for derogation from Article 3, even in times of war or other public emergency threatening the life of the nation.

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Child Mind Institute Chief Science Officer Dr. Michael Milham Named to 2024 List of Highly Cited Researchers™ for 11th Consecutive Year

Child Mind Intitute

Milham is an internationally recognized neuroscience researcher whose interests include investigating how functional and structural connectivity in the brain may underlie differing forms of mental illness, and seeking to chart the course of brain development in healthy and affected children.

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The Mental Health Crisis of Today’s Youth—The Hidden Culprit Every Parent and Therapist Should Know About

Mad in America

In a November 2011 article , University of Rochester psychologist Andrew Elliot pointed out how overachievers have an underlying fear of failure or a self-worth contingent upon competence. Today’s youth feel tremendous pressure to go “above and beyond” what’s expected, and feel deficient when they don’t measure up to unrelenting standards.