Is mental illness a primarily to blame when it comes to violence? Most citizens would say yes! A survey took in 2006 suggest that people believe that 60% of schizophrenic’s and 30% of people with severe depression are more like to commit some sort of violence. Over time there has been many different methods used to try to determine this. They used mental illness and control groups, self-reporting, and comparing data from the criminal justice system. Though, most studies didn’t take consideration of other variables that may contribute to violent behavior. For instances substance abuse, poverty, family history, personal adversity, stress, gender, and how all that could affect the mentally ill or non ill. One study the MacArthur Violence Risk
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Which is, that most people who have committed the worst acts of violence have mental problems. However anyone is capable of a violence. Ultimately research point to early treatment in reducing violence rates. Medication and therapy are a must if we want to keep violence under control, especially when it comes to mentally ill. Unfortunately in our society mental health is not covered enough in our system for people to feel they can afford to be treated. So we get less visits to therapy sessions, less time to recover in a medical facility and less options. According to Patient Outcomes Research Team model most patients don’t receive the outline recommendations. How can you be your full potential if the opportunities are not available? It should be our goal to get adequate treatment starting with early prevention. It could start with children being exposed to violence within the family. Parents of those children situations won’t always be the first to step up since most refuse to see the violence or care or themselves afraid of the violence. The school system should be better trained when it comes to watching for certain behaviors in young adults and get them proper counseling, that should also be easily available. I think we all realize that substance abuse is a huge factor in violence, but what we don’t know is how unattainable care if for people who need to recover and are trying to recover. Some don’t even recognize the problem on their own if they do they don’t know the options existing to be taken advantage of. We have people going to jail for committing a crime while being addicted to some sort of substance. If you are lucky enough, you kick the habit or you fall deeper with people alike. Instead of just being tossed as another criminal depending on acts the deeper root should be treated and therapy should be a must. We can’t control all aspects of someone such as the environments such as the neighborhoods they
Which is, that most people who have committed the worst acts of violence have mental problems. However anyone is capable of a violence. Ultimately research point to early treatment in reducing violence rates. Medication and therapy are a must if we want to keep violence under control, especially when it comes to mentally ill. Unfortunately in our society mental health is not covered enough in our system for people to feel they can afford to be treated. So we get less visits to therapy sessions, less time to recover in a medical facility and less options. According to Patient Outcomes Research Team model most patients don’t receive the outline recommendations. How can you be your full potential if the opportunities are not available? It should be our goal to get adequate treatment starting with early prevention. It could start with children being exposed to violence within the family. Parents of those children situations won’t always be the first to step up since most refuse to see the violence or care or themselves afraid of the violence. The school system should be better trained when it comes to watching for certain behaviors in young adults and get them proper counseling, that should also be easily available. I think we all realize that substance abuse is a huge factor in violence, but what we don’t know is how unattainable care if for people who need to recover and are trying to recover. Some don’t even recognize the problem on their own if they do they don’t know the options existing to be taken advantage of. We have people going to jail for committing a crime while being addicted to some sort of substance. If you are lucky enough, you kick the habit or you fall deeper with people alike. Instead of just being tossed as another criminal depending on acts the deeper root should be treated and therapy should be a must. We can’t control all aspects of someone such as the environments such as the neighborhoods they