Portrayal seems to be the biggest issue when it comes to the notion of mental health stigmatization. Mental illness is widely covered in the media, and especially on television. For this reflection paper, I watched multiple episodes from a crime show: Criminal Minds. Criminal Minds has a lot of episodes that tend to build fear around people with mental health challenges. Worst, Criminal Minds, each episode, continues to perpetuate the idea that all violent offenders are mentally ill. Even more mind-blowing, the cast focuses so closely on the criminal and portrays them as such “cartoons” of people with mental illness.
I have never considered this before writing this paper, but perhaps, the criminals, in most crime shows, are portrayed as mentally ill because it is frightening to think that someone who is not mentally ill could commit crimes. Therefore, “a crazy person must have done it, they are crazy.” I watch Criminal Minds consistently and unfortunately, the stigma …show more content…
Service coordination is one of the major types of community aftercare that is used at Pittsburgh Mercy Health System to provide ongoing assistance of chronic or recurring illness. Too often people with mental illness experience recurring pattern of discharge and readmission to hospitals because they are not adequately supported in the community. However, service coordinators, within Pittsburgh Mercy, offer multiple resources and the staff’s approach to continuance care amazes me. The role of service coordinators is to undertake assessment, monitoring, planning, advocacy and linking of the consumer with rehabilitation and support service. Clearly, this illustrates illness management and relapse prevention. Considering this concept, service coordination, a more assertive method of case management, appear to be a good way to service the mentally ill
I have never considered this before writing this paper, but perhaps, the criminals, in most crime shows, are portrayed as mentally ill because it is frightening to think that someone who is not mentally ill could commit crimes. Therefore, “a crazy person must have done it, they are crazy.” I watch Criminal Minds consistently and unfortunately, the stigma …show more content…
Service coordination is one of the major types of community aftercare that is used at Pittsburgh Mercy Health System to provide ongoing assistance of chronic or recurring illness. Too often people with mental illness experience recurring pattern of discharge and readmission to hospitals because they are not adequately supported in the community. However, service coordinators, within Pittsburgh Mercy, offer multiple resources and the staff’s approach to continuance care amazes me. The role of service coordinators is to undertake assessment, monitoring, planning, advocacy and linking of the consumer with rehabilitation and support service. Clearly, this illustrates illness management and relapse prevention. Considering this concept, service coordination, a more assertive method of case management, appear to be a good way to service the mentally ill