Psychiatric hospital

Throughout human history, people with mental illness have received a different forms of care than patients with medical conditions. After all, injuries and physical diseases have visible symptoms, while symptoms associated with mental illness are typically behavioral. For millennia, those with mental illness were perceived by society as suffering from some sort of crisis of the soul. They were stricken with madness by the gods or possessed by a demon. The treatment for such supernatural…

state funded mental institutions have changed their methods drastically throughout the years. The various types of abuse that the patients had to endure through were horrifying. Misdiagnosis such as deafness was considered retardation, and the psychiatric would sentence them into the institutions without considering a second option or opinion. The facilities would often intentionally over prescribe pills, and practically overdose their patients. The patients had no rights to refuse what was…

Everyone knows someone or may even struggle themselves with a mental health issue. Many people seek help and assistance through their health care provider. According to the World Health Organization, Mental health is “a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stress of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her own community” (August, 2014). Mental health affects three domains:…

The Sane Doing Insane Things Have you ever wondered what it was like in a mental hospital? If you could, would you pose as a patient to get admitted? In 1970 a man by the name of David Rosenhan did exactly that. Rosenhan wanted to determine if psychiatrists could tell the “Sane” from “Insane” apart (Slater 63.) Rosenhan and eight of his cohorts observed how Psychiatrists treated them during their stay. He came to the conclusion that the psychiatrist could not distinguish the “Sane” from…

would not know about. People nowadays are given multiple options for treating their illness, whereas many years ago, mental illness was frowned upon and was not given many or even sane approaches to treatment. Asylums, mental institutions, and psychiatric hospitals have all provided us with the history of how people were treated. I am hoping that after I finish this project, this will guide me to potentially learning as much as I possibly can about the psychology field and…

John Hathorne once lived, was where the Danvers State Hospital was built. In the 1870s the Commonwealth of Massachusetts built a psychiatric hospital to house the state’s growing mentally ill population. This building, nicknamed “the castle on the hill” was looked medieval and older than it was because it was made out of local bricks and granite costing $1.5 million to construct. This was surprising to many people…

had killed his family. He was convinced that the neighbors, teachers, everyone around him is trying to poison him. The patient was using illegal drugs such as hallucinogens but started using cannabis first. He was has been going on and off to a Psychiatric Facility for a few years and about 8 times. Then, he would be released after 5150 hold is over. His parents were told that they can ask for him to be extended for another 14 days, but his parents did not do that. He would go back to his…

government to poor mental health in China. This kind of response is reflected in Chinese healthcare and psychiatric resources, if any, provided by the Chinese government: “Only 1 in 12 Chinese needing psychiatric care ever sees a professional, according to a study last year in The Lancet, a British medical journal. China has no national mental health law, little insurance coverage for psychiatric care, almost no care in rural communities, too few inpatient beds, too few professionals and a weak…

For service providers the need to provide best practice and quality service is utmost importance and within the Social Work field an ethical adherence to the NASW code. As such, there needs to be an increase rather than the decrease in available psychiatric beds, however, simultaneously there needs to be an increase in community outpatient services. The 2012 study found that clinicians reported that 25.8% of cases hospitalization could have been avoided if services outside had been available.…

Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted is a story that takes place in a psychiatric ward during the late 1960’s in Massachusetts. The main character is an eighteen-year-old girl Susana Kaysen, who suffers from borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is a debilitating high-risk disease associated with strong emotional suffering that impairs everyday functioning (Fertuck, Karan, & Stanley, 2016, p. 1). She is a troubled teenager who recently left high school and appears…