This summary describes the abuse and neglect experienced by survivors in mental health care settings during the Inquiry period (1950 to 1999).
Chapter 2 is an executive summary.
Chapter 3 summarises how the Inquiry approached understanding mental distress, including the experiences of survivors in mental healthcare settings who registered with the Inquiry.
Chapter 4 provides the historical and social context most relevant to mental healthcare settings during the Inquiry period, including traditional societal attitudes to care among Māori, Pacific Peoples and Pākehā.
Chapter 5 describes the circumstances that led to children, young people and adults entering mental healthcare settings during the Inquiry period. This chapter explains how discrimination and misdiagnosis played a particular role that led to many people entering these settings.
Chapter 6 discusses the nature and extent of abuse and neglect experienced by children, young people and adults in mental healthcare settings. It focuses on physical, psychological and emotional abuse and neglect, as well as medical abuse and neglect.
Chapter 7 describes the impact on survivors of the abuse and neglect they suffered in these settings, including the ongoing societal stigma associated with mental distress and t time spent in mental healthcare settings.
Chapter 8 explains the factors that contributed to children, adults and young people being abused and neglected in mental healthcare settings. It focuses on the factors that had specific effects in these settings, including a lack of common standards, poor employment conditions and the lack of a comprehensive, independent oversight and monitoring system.
