Community Mental Illness

Through the discussion I will refer to mental illness as mental health behaviors as I do not like the term "mentally ill" because of the negative stigma that is tied with mental illness. In my personal opinion, I do not believe we have many resources to proactively treat Mental Health behaviors, especially for the young and the addicted. Usually community services does not get involved until the individual has committed a crime or has caused harm to self or another person. Also, I believe community sources such as Community Mental Health is lacking to give quality services because state funding is always being cut, and they can not employee counselors long enough to create a therapeutic relationship with their clients. And because of the lack of community services many of the young or addicted is turned over to the criminal system, and as sad as it sounds, jails and prisons is our main source of community services for many who suffer from health behaviors. According to the American Psychological Association, "mental illness among today's inmates is also pervasive, with 64 percent of jail inmates, 54 percent of state prisoners and 45 percent of federal prisoners reporting mental health concerns, the report found. Substance abuse is also …show more content…
Monroe CMH is located at 1001 South Raisinville Road,http://www.monroecmha.org/explore-mcmha/about-us/. CMH provides services such as psychotherapy. Once assigned to a team you will see the psychologist and or a PA that can prescribe medication therapy, along with behavioral therapy which can be in your home or at CMH. The barrier as I stated above is state funding which clients fee is based on income, but employees do not stay long enough to develop a therapeutic relationship with their