{"id":298800,"date":"2026-02-19T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298800\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:59:07","slug":"teen-psychiatric-patients-felt-belittled-and-bullied-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298800\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen psychiatric patients felt &#8216;belittled and bullied&#8217; &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A report following that visit, published on Thursday, found some improvements in care but highlighted significant concerns about staffing and the treatment of some children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One patient reported being told she was &#8220;pathetic&#8221; and &#8220;selfish&#8221; for needing to be fed using a nasogastric tube.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another said that if she self-harmed, some nurses would not clean blood from her face before walking through the ward area to the treatment room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The findings of the report included a &#8220;significant issue&#8221; with staffing levels at the facility, with some staff reporting feeling &#8220;burnt out&#8221; as a result of the pressure they were working under.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report found patients and families were positive about most members of staff but said they had concerns about the attitudes of others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It found nursing staff were regularly working additional hours, and that there was a reliance on temporary &#8220;bank&#8221; staff or staff from adult wards, who it was said &#8220;did not understand how to interact with teenagers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report also raised concerns about the way the use of restraint by staff was being recorded, including under-reporting the number of times a child was restrained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Young people described restraints from untrained agency staff as &#8220;rough&#8221; but found all recorded instances were &#8220;proportionate to the level of risk being managed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A report following that visit, published on Thursday, found some improvements in care but highlighted significant concerns about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-298800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}