Psychiatric treatments

schizophrenia, and potentially more. Why is there such a difference in diagnosis? The current definition of mental illness varies greatly from that of Holden’s time (the 1950’s) due to the advancements in societal views, knowledge of illnesses and treatment options. Society has conceived ever-changing opinions about mental illness throughout the years. During the 1950’s, “fearful and rejecting attitudes toward people with mental illness were common,” (Phelan 188). But even then, there were…

According to Brad Hagen, Gina Wong-Wylie, and Em Pijl-Zieber in “Tablets or Talk? A Critical Review of the Literature Comparing Antidepressants and Counseling for Treatment of Depression.” Considered as an unsafe method, and mistreatment of patients, Psychopharmacology methods should cease (113). Hagen, Wong-Wylie and Pijl-Zieber show that depression alone affects 9.5% of the US population 18 years and older (102). Additionally, over 70% of these people get treated with an antidepressant (103).…

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…

Mild-to-moderate disorders are estimated to have high prevalence rate in OECD populations. Research studies, evaluating treatment models, have shed consistent evidence that treating common mental disorders (such as depression or anxiety) in primary care settings is more effective approach compared to the prevailing mode of delivering treatment through specialist facilities in psychiatric hospitals. It is suggested that an integrated care model, in which primary care physicians working in…

Mathari Teaching and Referral Hospital. Mathari Hospital is Kenya’s sole National referral and teaching psychiatric Hospital Olwendo, W. M., (2015), it offer services to those suffering from a wide range of psychiatric disorders. In 1978, the maximum security unit was opened for law offenders with mental illness. In 2003, rehabilitation and centre for drugs and substance abuse disorder treatment was established with a capacity of 15 bed, only for male patient. In 2008 the female…

Largely today, the treatment of depression in the United States has become synonymous with taking a pill in order to make all of your troubles go away. As such, the prescribing of anti-depressant medications to patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders by doctors has become a priority to the pharmaceutical industry. Treating depression like one would with a headache has become incredibly lucrative to doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Evident through the robust…

reported mental illnesses have skyrocketed tremendously. Robert Glover, the executive director of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Director, states that “Without federal support, states haven 't been able to afford to keep their psychiatric hospitals open. States have closed 10% of their hospital beds from 2009 to 2012”(Szabo 2). With the recent incline…

The Rosenhan Study showed how psychiatric hospitals could not differentiate between actually sick, insane patients from patients who were faking the symptoms and completely sane. Many people have been suspicious of the pharmaceutical industry and believe they will lie and manipulate the public. There are select minorities that believe that many diseases could be cured, but the treatment has not been made public due to the damage it would do to the pharmaceutical industry. In Rosenhan’s study,…

paramedics restrain her onto a gurney. The strange thing about this is that Sally does not fight or resist them. She keeps on rambling on and on about everyone being a genius, light, and what light is about. As Sally is sent to a psychiatric hospital where she is given treatment that seems to make her a shell of her former self. This does not imply that everyone with a mental disorder is violent;…

the misunderstanding that it is abnormal and shameful. However, according to Overton, one in four people will experience a mental illness at some point in their lifetime (Overton). Despite the commonality of mental illness and the availability of treatment, mental illness remains undertreated (Sirey). The wide spread negative stigma surrounding mental illness could be debilitating to…