Psychiatric medication

Government started to build facilities used to house individuals that displayed behaviors against societal norms. The homes and hospitals could not house all individuals with a several mental disorder. These facilities converted to institutions. These asylums were a means for the removal of people from society deemed to be abnormal. While meant to provide quality care the facilities became full of people, essentially turning to prisons where patients underwent inhumane treatment. After this…

our country. Throughout the book, he shines light on the problems and areas needed for improvement in mental health. From a nursing standpoint, the book made me realize how important it is for people with mental health to be compliant with their medications and how important it is for healthcare providers to be advocating for these…

confined to mental institutions from 1955 to 2010 may have had the opportunity to use the money saved or not used to run the institutions on something considered to be more important at the time. In 1955 there was a peak of 560,000 mentally ill in psychiatric hospitals and by 2010 that number dropped to 43,000. (Pan, McClelland, Vongkiatkajorn, Levintova, & Patterson, 2013) With a drop of 92.32% I believe there may have been quite a bit of money saved but I also read mental institutions were…

bipolar disorder, and severe depression (2). Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is also a commonly possessed by homeless individuals, specifically veterans. These diseases are all controllable with counseling or the proper prescription medication.…

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…

comas lasted anywhere from one hour to four hours. This form of treatment started in the 1930’s but soon ended in the 1960’s. This from of treatment lasted quit a while. Metrazol therapy: “precursor to ECT” Seizures were deliberately induced using medications such as stimulant metrazol to try and reduce mental illnesses. Metrazol was removed from the FDA is 1982. This form of treatment did not help at all. Seizures just created a sickness for the patient. Fever therapy, it was believed that if…

on mental illness. Society is unaware of the troubling facts about mental illness and incapable to accept individuals who are mentally ill, often because they commit crimes because of their disorder. Therefore, with certain treatment options in psychiatric hospitals will help ensure proper care so these individuals and can be releases into society without harming others. Rehabilitation…

The early years of psychiatric field have provided the media with material for horror stories for ages now. Starting with colonial America, where people chained their ‘disturbed’ relatives and neighbors to the metal poles or locked them in small rooms for their entire lives, and ending with asylums, where doctors and nurses indulged in cruel behavior toward the patients, experimenting with inhumane methods of subduing the insane with lobotomy and electroconvulsive therapy. But is this picture…

This learning brief will discuss the history of various policies that were enacted through the 1960’s until the 1980’s with regards to mental illness. The brief will discuss the factors that lead to the 1970’s deinstitutionalization movement for persons experiencing mental illness. It will also discuss both the advantages and consequences of deinstitutionalization. The brief will conclude with a discussion on issues that are important for social workers to consider today. In 1963, the…

TA 100W 29 September 2014 Schizophrenic Soldiers During the Second World War Schizophrenia treatment has evolved since the 1940s. Today, schizophrenic patients can receive antipsychotic medications, psychosocial treatments, specialized rehabilitation programs, and cognitive 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…