Time/Place: A large American city on the west coast, in the mid-1990s
Search terms used: "mental health facility security", "criminally insane security measures", "psychiatric patient contact", "psychiatric patient letters", "can insanity defense patients send letters ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find information on how the Dutch do inpatient mental health care.  I know here in the US, you can go to a hospital, say you're having suicidal ideations, and they'll admit you (generally speaking--I'm summarizing my sister's experience ( Read more... )

Research: I've Googled various key word combinations trying to find out what the regulations are for scheduling and working hour limits / what a typicaly work week looks like for attending physicians at Canadian hospitals looks like, but all I'm getting is articles about sleep deprivation during residency.

Setting: "Now" (I don't have my ( Read more... )

Hey, friends, it's me again ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story, and I've been doing some reading and research about cults/communes/compounds/collectives during the 70s in the US. However, I have a few questions, and a lot relate to the government, sodomy laws, and custody laws ( Read more... )

Setting: Canada, Now ( Read more... )

Setting: Boston (Massachusetts, US-ish) area, contemporary ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story that takes place in a mental hospital in 1965. I wrote a scene where a fire alarm goes off, but then realized I don't know what the procedure would have been back then. This site says there were fire alarms in most public buildings by the mid 60's, which is slightly vague... so I'm not even 100% sure if March 1965 in a mental ( Read more... )

Search terms already used: "adult psych evaluation," "adult psych evaluation in hospital," "psych evaluation in hospital," "psychology exam Canada"

Setting: BC, Canada in the year 2017 (I wasn't going for that year per-say, but doing the math from my MC's birth date makes it that year).

Background information:
-The character has been admitted to ( Read more... )

Setting: Eastern USA, starting in 1979-1980, continuing to the 1990s.

( Warning for discussion of long-term psychiatric care for children, death of a child, mentions of institutional abuse and sexual abuse )