Mental health law

automatically causes things to get worse. Mentally ill offenders are being mistreated, instead of getting treatment. They need help in order to get better, and having them hostage is not a way of doing it. That is why they should be sent to a mental health care facility, rather than a prison. The mentally ill are impaired, not criminals. Yes, they commit crimes just like any ordinary person, but their disorder is the cause of their bad decision making. The mentally ill do not have it easy; they…

What is excited delirium and why is it important to law enforcement? Over the years the condition has been named and re-named as part of its very long and sorted history. A very small snap shot of what excited delirium entails is that it is a medical and physiological condition that sends the body into overdrive that elevates the heart and respiratory rates plus triggers other neurological changes. When the body can no longer operate at this very high capacity it begins to crash. This high…

Mental illness in this country, and throughout the world, is a huge, and ever-growing problem. More and more people suffer from mental illness every year and suicide is becoming more and more common. The statistics are troubling, and the way we treat people with mental illness is even more distressing. The root of the problem is the stigma and the outright discrimination against people with mental illness, but in this speech I will specifically address the systemic issues in our country in…

this 1954 case the court ruled that the individual cannot be held criminally responsible for an unlawful act because of a mental disease (Garofolo). An individual cannot be held responsible if they are not able to truly comprehend how their actions have that negative impact. This ruling goes in hand with the insanity defense in seeing if someone action is a product of mental illness. . Insanity states that a person can not be held responsible for a crime that the individual did not have…

the changes of how people look at different situations, the law had to also change. More specialized courts were created intended for more therapeutic purposes. A lot of the specialized courts focus on both drug and mental problems. Some people who use drugs are not bad people, but they are just in the wrong place. Some people with mental issues do not realize what they are doing or the effects of their actions. People with drug and mental problems should not go through the same vigorous process…

Mental health is an issue most face sometime in their life. 1in 5 adults in America have recently faced mental health issues. These illnesses are often stigmatized and viewed as having less importance compared to their physical counterparts. This situation harms the mentally ill and those close to them. The mental health system in America is inadequate to help patients due to its’ historical failures, lack of proper mental health facilities, and inaccessibility for Americans. America’s mental…

with the study of psychology and the involvement of various mental health experts largely the reason. This focus on psychology led to the development of multiple theories with the incorporation of various psychological principles; one of these theories is the ‘Diagnostic Evaluation’ or ‘Clinical Approach’, this approach was developed by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists and tends to assume that the offender has some form of mental illness and thus examines the crime scene from that…

Gay But Not Happy: The Impact of Queerness on Mental Health Introduction Four years prior to his suicide, 16-year-old Bobby Griffith wrote in his diary: "I can 't let anyone find out that I 'm not straight. It would be so humiliating. My friends would hate me, I just know it. They might even want to beat me up. . . . I guess I 'm no good to anyone . . . not even God. Life is so cruel, and unfair. Sometimes I feel like disappearing from the face of this earth" (Miller 88). After realizing he was…

The structural stigma experienced by people who are diagnosed with mental disabilities has been a focus of the study. Patrick Corrigan explains how clinical diagnosis may exacerbate individual’s experience of psychiatric disabilities along with structural stigma. In this research about the stigmatizations of mental illness that are aggravated by clinical diagnosis, Corrigan indicates that the diagnostic classifications create homogeneity and labels. Corrigan strongly argues that diagnosis as a…

Change in DSM In 1973 a historic advance in social justice took place and homosexuality was removed as a mental disorder from the DSM. The APA then acknowledged that not only was homosexuality not a mental illness, but there was a need for revision in the practice guidelines and ethical standards pertaining to sexual orientation. The APA recognized that mental health practitioners would need to go about offering services to people who identify as gay, lesbian, and bisexual in a very different…