At first I couldn’t see how the different readings were related but then I thought a little deeper. I came upon the conclusion that the different fields used to study the mind seem to be plastic and malleable, ever changing. Some changes were great and others seemed to set us back as a society. Certain situations made great strides but established individuals seemed to hamper them. Your see this in the writings from Benjamin (2006) regarding Mary Calkins. The Grob (2008) chapter demonstrated that the field is plastic and ever changing, by discussing the transformation of american psychiatry. In the end, the Maccoby (1994) chapter summed up how early childhood interventions and attachments have implications to tip the whole scale in regards
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Overtime that care has changed from one extreme to another. There was a huge transformation of the american psychiatry system, starting with the erection of insane asylums for better care and treatment opportunities. Psychiatrists focused on certain aspects: counseling, different therapy techniques, long term, short term, shock, drugs and many others. Hospitals went from small social groups, that were beneficial to patients, to larger inadequate facilities resembling prisons. People left for private practice because they wanted to help cure people, so their patients could learn to live adequate lives. The huge number of patients in asylums made that impossible. Funding was a main factor. State and Federal government didn’t want to continue to pay for the housing of the mentally insane or the brain failing seniors. Legislation was passed and the hospitals were closed down. Mentally ill patients, with no where else to go, became homeless and seniors got put into group homes. Overtime, society began to criminalize them. Instead of being placed into a hospital, with small positive social groups, they are excluded from normal society and banished to a life of incarceration. Hopefully, policies and legislation will be written to address this horrific conundrum. There is hope because things are malleable and can change, like our parenting styles resulting in different child
Overtime that care has changed from one extreme to another. There was a huge transformation of the american psychiatry system, starting with the erection of insane asylums for better care and treatment opportunities. Psychiatrists focused on certain aspects: counseling, different therapy techniques, long term, short term, shock, drugs and many others. Hospitals went from small social groups, that were beneficial to patients, to larger inadequate facilities resembling prisons. People left for private practice because they wanted to help cure people, so their patients could learn to live adequate lives. The huge number of patients in asylums made that impossible. Funding was a main factor. State and Federal government didn’t want to continue to pay for the housing of the mentally insane or the brain failing seniors. Legislation was passed and the hospitals were closed down. Mentally ill patients, with no where else to go, became homeless and seniors got put into group homes. Overtime, society began to criminalize them. Instead of being placed into a hospital, with small positive social groups, they are excluded from normal society and banished to a life of incarceration. Hopefully, policies and legislation will be written to address this horrific conundrum. There is hope because things are malleable and can change, like our parenting styles resulting in different child