Psychiatric hospital

Most people who were mentally ill in hospitals were treated as prisoners. They were put in dungeons, chained, and beaten. Urbanization allowed for more institutions for the mentally ill but the conditions in which they live did not improve. They were still being treated as criminals and most did not have access to light or heat. In the early 1800’s, Dorothea Dix watched this mistreatment occur in Massachusetts and began to establish over 30 hospitals that focused on the treatment of the mentally…

Nosocomephobia is the complete rational fear of mental hospitals. The word “asylum” has gained a lot of negative connotation since its first conception. The connotation refers to horrid, vivid images of the mentally ill being strapped down to a table and experimented on. If almost any sane person were to go through the humiliating, straining, disgusting events a psychiatric patient goes through on a daily basis, they would feel as though they deserved to be classified as insane. Mental…

they were once a place where people were abandoned and left untreated. Almost everything about psychiatric hospitals and asylums have changed in the last 100 years. Some of the most dramatic changes are how people were treated, why they were put into the hospital in the first place, and the gruesome ways they treated those illnesses. I would say most asylums have changed for the good. Mental hospitals and asylums have definitely changed throughout the years, and even though some still aren’t the…

Seager explains everything wrong with today's hospitals for the criminally insane. Seager emphasis the fact that modern laws and regulations fail to protect the staff of these hospitals, allowing some violent patients to continually assault their caretakers. He also points out that assaults on les violent patients is also a problem. Seager claims that these problems come not only form poor governmental regulations, but also from oversights by the hospitals themselves. Seager also goes on to…

Code Blue-Where To? This is a review of the case study Code Blue-Where To?, The patient in this case is an 80 year old patient admitted to a psychiatric facility, who ultimately dies. His death is not the fault of the medical staff, but the care he received prior to his death was plagued with system errors and communication breakdowns that could be argued as causing undue patient harm. The errors include problems with staff training, policy and procedures, outdated equipment, and failure to…

homicide are rushed into the ER and sometimes these children or adolescents get distracted with the hospitals environment and cannot focus on their own treatment, or merely feel uncomfortable. Many families complain about sitting in the halls, because they do not want someone to recognize them and notice their blue scrub attire, which signifies that they are actually a SCIP patient and not at the hospital for medical purposes. How can we begin to change behavioral health and social service…

However, as I 've gotten older I know its more of a hospital for the mentally unstable; people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and severe cases of depression. I used to think of the scary movies where people were being abused there but I now know that is not the case. Many people who are not in this field believe that psychiatric hospitals are like jails for the mentally ill but I think in-patient facilities are like that too. I don 't think…

behavioral therapy. Although psychiatric care had significantly improved since the First World War, World War II military hospitals were not without their flaws. During the Second World War, schizophrenic soldiers often received inadequate care. Both inside and outside the war zone, schizophrenia (when properly identified) was treated through insulin shock treatment, electroconvulsive treatment, somatic treatments, lobotomy, tranquilizing…

SUICIDE MONITORING AT WORCESTER RECOVERY CENTER & HOSPITAL Jason kiragu Mount Wachusett community college Worcester state recovery hospital (WRCH) is a psychiatric facility that focuses on care and treatment of individuals with mental illness. For my focused clinical based project, I explored the topic on suicide monitoring at the facility. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States (Santis, Myrick, Lamis, Pelic, 2015). In Santis et al.’s (2015) an article reviewing…

Kesey’s references to Christ seem more blatant as McMurphy’s actions start to become similar to the actions of Christ. Chief Bromden, the narrator of Kesey’s novel, is enrolled in the hospital as deaf and dumb. In his whole tenure at the psychiatric ward, the chief did not say one word, and the nurses and patients did not think twice about the possibility of him ever speaking. At first, McMurphy tries to converse with the majestic Indian, but to no avail. One of the patients, Billy Bibbit,…