Counterpoint Winter 2018 • News • Page 1 BRATTLEBORO – The Brattleboro Retreat adopted a new policy this year to lock all bathrooms on inpatient units, requiring patients to ask staff for help to access the toilets. The psychiatric hospital’s policy was met with...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 1 WATERBURY – The Department of Mental Health approved a draft policy in March from Springfield Hospital for a new electroconvulsive therapy service. The policy includes steps for seeking authority to perform ECT involuntarily on a...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • News • Page 18 WATERBURY – A study committee reviewing whether to recommend changes in Vermont’s involuntary outpatient commitment laws has met twice but not yet decided what to put in its report to the legislature. The committee is scheduled...
Counterpoint Fall 2018 • Commentary • page 22 By CONOR CASH At this year’s Alternatives conference in Washington, Calvin Moen, Kaz DeWolfe and I gave a presentation on the elements of psychiatric coercion that members of our community face in accessing survival...
