...used to strengthen the criminal system. So, instead of the government focusing helping the mentally ill, they are intent in strengthening the criminal system. The consequences to cutting funds in community health centers and clinics are that the mentally ill are not being properly treated, and, as a result, many of these people end up suffering from their disease, from casualties to death. Another consequence to cutting funds is that since people are being left untreated, this leads to an increase in mass incarceration rates. Also, looking at it in a net worth perspective,...
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...Deinstitutionalization Patricia Wilson Liberty University Abstract The purpose of this research is to look at the history of deinstitutionalization; the driving forces behind it; and the impact it made on the individual, their family and society. Deinstitutionalization has been a topic of controversy from its onset. Did it create a further mental health crisis? Or was it successful with providing individuals who were suffering from a mental illness or intellectual developmental disability an opportunity of achieving their hopes and dreams and doing so by receiving supports in the least restrictive environment possible. The goal of deinstitutionalization was to develop a full range of community services that would take the place of institutions. Several driving forces were behind this: the development of psychiatric drugs, the belief that people should receive treatment as opposed to institutionalization, and federal policy and funding. Many hoped that these factors would greatly reduce and perhaps even eliminate mental illness. The individual transitioning from institutions, their family, and society were all impacted by this new direction. Most were not prepared for this move. The lack of planning and adequate treatment led to many unforeseen consequences such as homelessness and incarceration. A shift to community based care was encouraged through the Mental Health Centers Act of 1963. Various services were offered but unfortunately they focused more on helping...
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...Page 1 Deinstitutionalization Axia College of University of Phoenix Veronica Cole Human Services in the United States May 6, 2011 Page 2 Deinstitutionalization was signed into law the Community Mental Health Centers Acts by John F. Kennedy on October 31, 1963 when he established community health centers. It was meant so that the mentally ill could leave mental hospitals and move into a home that was run by the local states of where they were from. With the discovery of new medications it was easier for people to be deinstitutionalized and with the help of social workers and psychiatric rehabilitation; it helps patients gain their independence and freedom. The article that I chose was about a guy whose brother was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenia. It tells about all the trouble that he put his family through until they had him committed. They could only keep him for observation because of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act that was first started in California in 1967. It was written with good intentions so that a person could not be locked up by someone else because, people were locked up for no reason by a family member. Because of this law a lot of mentally ill people are not being locked up that really need to be. These people are ending up homeless, in jail, and cemetery. It is harder now to have someone committed even though they may need to be. A judge can have someone committed for a short time for observation if they are considered a threat...
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...hsm210tutorials.com HSM 210 week 1 Check Point Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill HSM 210 week 1 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 2 Checkpoint Researching Human Services Agencies HSM 210 week 2 Assignment Contemporary Problems HSM 210 week 3 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 4 Checkpoint Differentiating Between Public and Private Organizations HSM 210 week 4 Assignment Examining Government Regulations HSM 210 week 5 Exercise Critical Thinking Exercises HSM 210 week 5 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 6 Assignment Prevention HSM 210 week 6 Checkpoint Determining levels of prevention HSM 210 week 7 Checkpoint Comparing Values HSM 210 week 7 Discussion Question 1 & 2 HSM 210 week 8 Assignment Characteristics and Skills HSM 210 week 8 Checkpoint Evaluating Communication Strategies HSM 210 week 9 Capstone DQ HSM 210 week 9 Final Substance Abuse and the Native American Population ******************************************************** HSM 210 week 1 CheckPoint Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.hsm210tutorials.com Check Point: Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill One of the most significant historical events to impact the evolution of human service work was the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill in the 1960s. Your text examines some positive and negative outcomes of deinstitutionalization. Resources: Ch. 3 (p. 144) of Human Services in...
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...other cities. The hospitals first superintendent, Dr. James Decker Munson, felt that if people were surrounded by beauty and tranquility, a lot of their mental problems would cease to exist. The use of straightjackets wasn’t even allowed. Also, as part of the “work is therapy” philosophy, the asylum provided opportunities for patients to gain a sense of purpose through farming, furniture construction, fruit canning, and other trades that kept the institution fully self-sufficient. The asylum also produced its own electricity and heat. Dr. James Decker Munson believed that mental asylums should be for the treatment of the patients, not just for storing the mentally ill. It was this belief that led the way for the natural environment of care he created for his patients, and originated the idea of therapeutic work for the mentally ill, who worked on the hospital farm. In 1881, the state chose Traverse City as the site for the Northern Michigan Asylum, where Dr. Munson was selected as the first medical superintendent in 1885. When he arrived he found an enormous area of uncultivated, stump-covered land. With his farming background and experience, he cleared the land and planned its landscaping and beautification. Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride, a well known physician and active in the psychiatrist field believed that establishing a new building type was essential for affecting...
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...communities contain a mentally ill population. Their behavior is considered to be inappropriate and abnormal. Every society has cultivated solutions in which to treat the mentally ill in order to prevent disruption of the strong civil function. Normal behavior varies through generations and societies. When deciding if a person is mentally ill, the generation and culture must be taken into consideration. Approximately 26 percent of the U.S. population suffers from mental illness, with six percent of that percentage suffering from such debilitating mental afflictions that their ability to function is limited. The History of Mental Illness In ancient times, mental illness was thought to be madness caused by demonic possession. Skulls of the “mad” were drilled to allow the demon to escape. During the middle ages, mental illness was believed to be the result of witchcraft and demonic control. The tormented were treated as criminals and subject to torturous acts. They were often tied up and thrown into bitterly cold waters. If the person floated, they were considered to be a witch and were murdered in an inhumane and heinous manner. If the suspected sunk, they were found not guilty of witchcraft. The freezing water was accepted as a cure for “madness.” By the mid 1700’s, mental illness was considered an issue for the afflicted’s family. As the American colonies grew, the mentally ill began to negatively impact the society. Almshouses were used to board the mentally ill. Specialized hospitals...
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...Tonette Robertson February 1, 2013 Radford University Master of Social Work As a child when asked what I wanted to be when I grow up I would respond, “I want to be a doctor”, when asked why I would answer, “Because I want to help people.” As I got older and helped my maternal grandmother who was sick with several of health issues I then changed my career goal to being a nurse. And needless to say from there I wanted to be a million other things; psychologist, child care provider, massage therapist, all with one thing in common; to help others and to be effective in their life. I became interested in social work after being placed in foster care at the age of fourteen. Confused, frustrated and angry, I was in desperate need, and it was caring social workers who, with my best interest at heart, provided me with the care that I needed. I have had many different social workers with different styles of working, those who are overly passionate, those who are not so ethnical, and then the social workers who within months quit. However, the passionate social workers supersede any other style of social work and have had great influence on my career decisions. As a social worker, I will be able to sympathize with the individuals that I work with, being that I was once in a similar position. As a social worker, I want to touch as many lives as possible and be effective when working with each individual on my case. I want to work in areas of social work that are close to my heart....
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...31, 1963, President Kennedy signed the Community Mental Health Centers Act into law. Starting in the mid 1970’s, deinstitutionalization began to take affect, shutting down metal hospitals (Sheth). However, the policy of deinstitutionalization has since failed miserably. According to US Congressman Ted Strickland, thousands of mentally ill patients are being dumped out of state hospitals into communities that do not have the adequate services to receive them (Sheth). These efforts are known as "the deinstitutionalization movement", and have resulted in trans-institutionalization, in which huge numbers of mentally ill individuals lands in jails, prisons, homeless shelters, and flop houses (Sheth). Because of this, approximately one-third of homeless persons suffer from severe and disabling mental illnesses...
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...Mentally Ill in Prison PSCH/610 Mentally Ill in Prison Abstract The increase in incarcerated individuals with mental illness in the preceding decades has made the prison system a prevalent mental health provider even though they are not prepared or equipped for such task. Prison life is tough on an individual’s mental health; overcapacity, lack of privacy, violent behavior, lack of activity, inadequate health services, seclusion from family and friends, and the insecurity of what life holds after prison contribute to the inmate’s mental health. Inmates whose judgment is altered or impaired by depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other severe mental illnesses are impacted more severely by the tribulations of prison life. Inadequate mental health services is also something mentally ill inmates face, this absconds them undertreated or mistreated. Numerous prisoners do not receive proper psychotropic medication due to the lack of mental health services and care, further impairing their capability to function. The security mission of prisons tends to overlook mental health considerations. Prison rules and codes of demeanor teach staff about security, safety, supremacy, and power. Coordinating the needs of the mentally ill with prison regulations and goals is almost impractical. Factors of the sources and effects of the concern between prison and mental illness will be observed in this research proposal. Reforms will be provided to improve mental health...
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...that I picked in Week 2, the mentally ill, would be the tertiary preventive measure. This measure deals with a small group of people or an individual. It is helps rehabilitates individuals back into society. This preventive measure restores an individual to better health (Ch.8, p.310). The government regulations for this population to get the help that they many need is pretty rigid. They must go to a doctor, psychiatrist or to a hospital so many times, before they may even considered having a mental illness. Many times, the mentally ill do not go to a doctor, because they do not know what is required of them, they have no one to help them to get here or to help them understand what it is that is being asked of them. An obstacle that can be averted with the mentally ill getting the help that they may need, is to have an advocate go with that person to the doctor’s appointment and speak to that doctor, on their behalf and help them with the paper work that may be involved. Having the advocate there would lessen the strain on the individual needing help. Another obstacle that needs addressed is the cutting of funds to the clinics that help the mentally ill. The purpose of clinics is to help these people live a fulfilling life and to live in the communities and to live a productive life. If the clinics are not there to help them, then they cannot achieve a better mental health. The whole idea of deinstitutionalization was to have the mentally ill live productive lives outside...
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...situation of not having anywhere to go. I also see a lot of these people talking to themselves and I have always thought they were just on drugs which a lot of them probably are but now that I have learned more about mental illness it is very difficult to determine whether mental illness is a cause or an effect of homelessness. There is research showing that “It is thought that approximately 25 to 33 percent of the homeless population suffers from some form of mental illness” (Townsend). This number is shocking to me and made me wonder why this is? Some of the following theories have been proposed: the deinstitutionalization movement of the 50’s and 60’s, the growing number of war veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, cuts in government entitlement programs for the mentally ill and substance abuse (Townsend). As nurses we have a very important role in treating the mentally ill homeless patient. We have to be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness, evaluate whether or not they are taking medications and receiving the right kind of treatment, and if they aren’t we need to guide them in the right direction for getting treatment and provide resources for them to help them as much as we can. The majority of the homeless population seems to live in areas with a lot of people and have decent weather like San Diego. In San Diego, they are mostly visible in the downtown area where there are most of the shelters or we also see a lot of them in the beach cities...
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...corrections system. You will also describe some of the main similarities among and differences between the general population and people who end up under correctional authority. I will identify different types of offenders in the corrections system and the kinds of problems they pose for corrections. I will describe the classification process for people under correctional authority and know why it is important. And lastly you will understand the important problems and limitations in classifying people under correctional authority. The conclusion of the research paper will note how all of these things compare to reality today. Keywords: situational offender, career criminal, sex offender, drug abuser, alcohol abuser, mentally ill offender, deinstitutionalization, mentally handicapped offender, long term prisoner, and classification systems. Chapter 6 starts off telling me about a man name Michael G. Santos’s. He is a long term offender who was sentence to 45 years in federal prison because of cocaine trafficking when he was 24 years old. While he was incarcerated, he has obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degrees, published six books, and written articles for several national journals (Clear, Cole, & Reisig, 2011-2013). He runs every morning to clear his head on the prison track. He is not your typical correctional client. Most correctional clients don’t achieve as much as he did in his 20 something years in prison. It was examined that correctional clients,...
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...Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill In this assignment we were to find an article and write about what we had found. The article that I had chosen to write about is: Homeless men and women: Differential associations among substance abuse, psychosocial factors, and severity of homelessness. The article was about getting people who were determined mentally ill off the streets. Many people are released without the proper care to function in today’s society. These people do not have any other support and end up on the street causing homeless problems throughout cities around the country. The article stated that deinstitutionization has caused problems for the chronic mentally ill. Problems throughout the country are being affected by lacks of government help. In the article, it states that individuals do not have the proper care because the lack of housing, the mentally ill have no other choice but to end up on the street which then turns into higher crime and disease rates. Most of the mentally ill who have been released have problems with drugs and alcohol. This in turn raises the disease rate because people share and we have to worry about them spreading their diseases. The ill who are alcoholics become violent and cause a lot of arguments. In many communities throughout the country, there are many organizations that help with providing clean and safe environment for these people. Some communities offer AA meetings or NA meetings. These meetings help the addicts...
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...A large number of homeless people entered the street in the 1970s. A large contributing factor is because of deinstitutionalization of medically ill, as well as the changes in housing stock, which led to a dramatic decline of single-room housing that began in the 1950s (Coalition). These single-room housing units provided low-cost housing for low-income families due to several factors such as the shared kitchen and bathroom systems (Coalition). “In 1960, by one measure, there were approximately 129,000 single-room housing units citywide. By the 1970s, single-room housing had become the “housing of last resort” for poor single adults, many of whom were disabled, elderly, addicts, or ex-inmates,” (Coalition). Besides the simple cut of single-room housing, this deinstitutionalization led a discharge of tens of thousands of mentally ill individuals to the New York City communities. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, “between 1965 and 1979 alone, the number of resident patients in State psychiatric centers fell from 85,000 to 27,000, which was a 68 percent decline.” This policy of deinstitutionalization was due to new and different medications and new approaches in providing treatment in a community setting. Because of the deinstitutionalization, single-room housing units became a key place for those...
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