A recent article published in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry by an international group of expert clinicians and researchers offers one of the clearest and most ethically grounded ...

Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of autonomy. Researchers have acknowledged this connection, but there's been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Commuters walk across the Brooklyn Bridge on Dec. 22, 2005, in New York City. (Mario Tama via Getty Images) This story was ...

Credit: Getty Images Respect for the autonomy of patients does not mean leaving them to navigate health care decisions on their own. Shared decision-making enables physicians to serve as guides to ...

Each Houston ISD school has been sorted into a category that determines how much autonomy the campus will have — an important distinction that explains where the district's state-appointed leaders ...