Psychiatric hospitals

Until the nineteenth century, mental illnesses was mostly treated in domestic settings. With the establishment of “mad houses”, the settings of care altered to medical institutions, but therapies and treatments remained largely unsuccessful in curing cognitive impairment. The development of psychosurgery offered a solution to the lack of therapeutic interventions for the mentally ill, although looking back on the treatment, many faults can be noticed. However, using a historical lens, the use…

Wrong Thoughts: The Tragedy of Mental Illness The mind bears many titles. It is the brain, the thought provoker, the roadmap, and exclusively the source of all wit and intellect. Just as the famous saying goes: “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Having agency and personality are some of the most distinguishing attributes that characterizes a human being. Despite this fact, the maxim aforementioned as well identifies a well-rooted calamity that is not only plaguing the U.S. but the entire…

The Frontline video documentary, “The Released,” is a follow-up film of Frontline’s “The New Asylum” which is a documentary about how correctional facilities became a dumping ground for our society’s mentally ill criminals after state psychiatric hospitals closed down in the 1970’s. The movie, “The Released” however, focuses on what happens to people with chronic mental health issues after being released from prisons and jails. The film shows us that most of these mentally ill inmates end up…

Noelle Albert 1 May 2015 AP Lang- P5 Mrs. Rose Deinstitutionalization Draft That man with a cardboard sign standing on the median; the one who clings to his bike, coasting down Main Street with dozens of plastic bags hung precariously from its handlebars; those huddled under garbage bags on park benches to keep warm in the frigid winter air; families who drag themselves to soup kitchens as a last resort to avoid starvation. Common sights like these bring about curiosity and pity and blame. That…

Introduction and context Luke is a 19 year old man who was brought in to the Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) in protective custody under an assessment order and an interment treatment order to an acute mental health facility with a diagnosis of drug induced psychosis and querying schizophrenia. Luke comes from a low socioeconomic background and is currently receiving youth allowance payments. Luke is a smoker with a history of illicit drug use and alcohol abuse. Luke has recently moved…

The Origins of Stigma about Mental Health The word stigma emanates from the Greek language meaning a mark that is left in the body during the cultural branding of animals in the Greek culture. The name would gain popularity in later years only this time referring to the unwarranted social disapproval of a due to perceived or existing individual characteristics. In most instances, the stigma is based on backward and stereotypic beliefs that have a very shallow premise (Stuart, 2008). The…

Aggregate Strength and Weakness Gilliam Psychiatric hospital is the largest mental health hospital in the state of South Carolina, in which provides service to incarcerated inmates who are mentally ill. South Carolina state mental health hospital had to close their doors due to limited funds in the state budget system. Some of the patients were forced out into the community with limited resources to survive and ended up in the hands of the judicial system. As a result the mentally ill clients…

The clubhouse model came about after the 1950’s deinstitutionalize movement. The deinstitutionalize movement consisted of many state mental hospitals closing, leaving many homeless and incarcerated. Thousands of people did not have access to medication as well as had no one to case manage their situations. The clubhouse model follows the model of the Fountain House in New York. The Fountain House is a place that became a type of safe haven to those whom were deinstitutionalized, giving them a…

The treatment of mental patients has greatly improved since the 1960s, but it still is not perfect. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey and published in 1962. Chief Bromden, a schizophrenic patient in an insane asylum who pretends to be dumb and deaf to avoid confrontation, narrates what happens in the ward. When authority hating Randle McMurphy is committed to the ward, he notices the head nurse, Nurse Ratched, manipulates her patients to keep her authority, rather…

officials. Because of this and frequent complaints made by her superiors, in 1863 all nurses were now to report to the highest ranking hospital official in accordance with the General Orders No. 351- bypassing Dorothea completely. After the war Dorothea resumed her work in the advocacy for the treatment of the mentally ill, finding that in the years after the war hospitals that had once been expanded for the care of the mentally ill were now overcrowded and the plight for those were now just as…