American Psychiatric Association

Mental Health and Criminals Imagine having a child with a mental illness and not knowing what will happen next. One minute they are happy and enjoying life, with the world in their hands, then suddenly, the child gets angry and violent. People get frazzled and confused, never knowing if there is a way to help or stop those violent children before it 's too late. Too late for them to make the worst mistake of their life: hurting someone dearly or going to prison for the rest of their life. An…

I would like to start this letter by addressing the fact that I admire your work and dedication of running a mental institution. I know it must be a difficult task, and you seem to be doing the best that you can. However, it has come to my attention that one of your nurses, Nurse Ratched, has been treating not only the patients poorly, but your employees poorly as well. As a monitor of local Mental Health Hospitals, it is my top priority to ensure the safety and wellbeing of those staying in…

The topic of deinstitutionalization is a controversial issue in psychology. Deinstitutionalization refers to a process of relocating chronically mentally disabled populations from institutions to community-based treatment facilities. The idea of the deinstitutionalization reform was created to promote more effective and humane treatment for patients with mental illness via a shift from statewide institutions to more community-based treatment services. Deinstitutionalization first began in the…

1960s initiated the idea that psychiatric drugs work by balancing brain chemistry (25). This claim suggested a cure to a biological disorder (Whitaker 25). However, this theory remains unproven. In fact, most Psychopharmacology drugs do the opposite, and decrease the accuracy of the brains ability to evoke feelings and emotions (Whitaker, 25). This decrease causes a change in personality, which increases the likelihood that a person will become ill, and get new psychiatric symptoms (Whitaker…

Dix’s interest in mental health reform didn’t materialize out of the ether. It had roots in her personality, as well as experiences she had while in England. Dix’s personality had the desire to make some sort of mission out of her life, hungering to find a cause to devote herself to. Without any solid purpose in her life, she floated, untethered. In 1838, in response to a letter that Dix had sent her, Dix’s friend Anne noted that Dix was a “…wanderer, doomed to know many a thing of grief and…

History of Group Work Group work is a wide-ranging training implementing the presentation of awareness and ability in operating a group to support an inter-reliant group of people to accomplish their shared objectives, which may be social, interpersonal, or related to the occupation. The history of group work began in the early 1900’s. There were many theorists who contributed to the evolution of group work. A few will be mentioned from the 1900s and a couple will be mentioned that have recently…

for a while, and doctor decide that I need more then this help. As my own decision and the safe of my family, I decide to get help from a mental hospital. I was an inpatient in this hospital for 4 days, while my stay they assign me a psychiatric doctor. My psychiatric diagnose me with anxiety and depression, something that I never thought that could have had happen to me. While, my stay in the mental hospital I realized that I was not alone. I meet people with different mental…

. In the study, empathy was found to significantly increase, which may contribute to more effective treatment overall. This study provides adequate evidence that by implementing the MATP, clinicians and mental hospital staff can be better prepared on how to deal with non-adherence, and provide more effective treatment for patients within mental care facilities. The MATP is just another way that nurses and clinicians can improve their relationship with their patient and contribute to higher…

This book is a true story about a woman’s journey from childhood into adulthood and coming to terms with Schizophrenia. Louise Gillett, a married mother of four children has been in and out of mental hospitals since her teenage years. She is a writer who have not published anything until now. Diagnosed with a mental illness, she faced shame and embarrassment and hid the disease for years from family and friends. Her story begins with her waking up in a mental hospital after having a psychotic…

Mental illness is a great contributor to homelessness in fact, survey shows that mental illness is the third largest cause of homelessness in the United States. In 2010 a survey was taken to show the number of homeless people there were in large cities the combined total was 744,000. On the other hand, approximately one third of that population make up the homelessness are mentally ill to be specific that is 250,000 people and this number is growing even to this day. These mentally ill people…