Psychiatric treatments

patients are treated in clinical versus the book. In clinical, the patients are treated with respect and are getting adequate treatment from a staff team who genuinely wants to help them. In the book, there are many stories where people involved with people with mental illness don’t have the best intentions. A lot of people in the book are mistreated and aren’t getting the treatment they need. There’s various stories of people with mental illness getting slipped through the cracks, injured,…

Deinstitutionalization gives many people seeking or needing psychological help the chance to try alternative treatments rather than being put straight into a hospital. With this, there is a decent chance that a person may find an alternative treatment suited to their liking and needs. Also, countries such as the United States who saw a dramatic decline in the number of patients who were confined to mental institutions from 1955 to 2010 may have had the opportunity to use the money saved or not…

stricken with madness by the gods or possessed by a demon. The treatment for such supernatural conditions was to persuade the entity to leave the body. For instance, archaeologists have uncovered five-thousand-year-old bodies with holes bored into their skulls to allow invading spirits the ability to leave. Over centuries, various societies struggled…

Unsung Heroes of Psychiatric Wards The cliche phrase ‘don 't judge a book by its cover’ has been around for generations. Who would have guessed that one of America’s most loved movie stars and sex icons, Marilyn Monroe, had depression and a form of schizophrenia? In One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey proves that people with mental illness should not be frowned upon because they do not fit in with the rest of the cookie-cutter society. Kesey uses a realist approach to make people…

Code 4: The MMPI-2 as a Predictor of Violence among Sexually Violent Predators Introduction The release rate of sexually violent predators (SVPs) from psychiatric hospitals is extremely low; it is almost nonexistent. The ongoing controversy of civil commitment laws among SVPs indicates a need for further research in the areas of diagnosis, treatment, and policy. This paper looks at the violent behavior of sexually violent predators and attempts to identify personality traits measured by a…

The treatment of those who are vulnerable is infinitely telling about the values a country holds. The rapid decline of mental health institutions in the United States can be correlated to the rise in prison population and homelessness. America is a country with such advanced medical technology and supposed equal opportunity, and this would lead one to believe extensive resources are being poured into treatment and protection for those with mental illnesses, but this is not the case. With a…

Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey and “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is written by Ken Kesey and is narrated by a man named Chief Bromden. Chief Bromden is a mentally ill patient at a psychiatric hospital that suffers from seeing things that aren’t actually there. While he is attending…

health service is provided, on site or by referral. Referral services take place in the community using community based providers. Community providers are care givers, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers who make guidelines, treatment and protocol plans. There has been improvement since the ACA, in 2014 according to the article, Sharing a Playbook: Integrated Care in Community Health Centers in the United States, “Improving Access to behavioral health services at health…

psychological treatments and disorders because I’ve always been interested in the way the human mind functions and ways to treat it. The psychology field is a very broad subject that has a great deal of history and knowledge that the average person 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…

by helping them with housing, supervision and companionship from their family and friends, and making connections with community mental health centers who are able to monitor the patients when they are discharged and help provided the necessary treatment (Ginsberg, 2001). Social workers also work in mental hospitals assisting patients who are accused of crimes and help with recommendations about their trials and their sentences if they are found guilty and convicted. It is also likely for a…