What Families Need to Know About Restraints in Psychiatric Care
Psychology Today | 28.04.2026 00:03
It was the summer of 2013, and I had just arrived in Haiti as part of a global mental health fellowship—an early-career psychiatrist fresh out of training, there to support community-based mental health services serving a community of 1.3 million people in rural Haiti. Within days of arriving, I was asked to help develop a policy for the use of physical restraints at a hospital.
