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Mental Health (History (Asylums/Mental Institutions (Early form of…
Mental Health
History
Asylums/Mental Institutions
Early form of treating mental health patients
Housing for the "mad"
People were abandoned by family who didn't want to deal with them
Compared to prison system
Beginning of institutional discrimination
Closed off from society, more integrated later on
Poor conditions, patient abuse, segregation, etc
Treatments
Scientific "revolution"
Barbarian practices - often did more harm than good
Introduction of drugs showed promise
Anything that could calm patients
Diagnostic heavy approach from 1970's onward
Perspectives
Patients were mad
Non-conforming to society's standards
Patients were outcasts in society and within system
Didn't think patients had real disease, were just
Treatments
20th Century
Electroconvulsive Therapy
Lobotomies
Insulin/Induced Coma Therapy
Introduction of Antipsychotic Drugs
Asylums/Psychiatric Hospitals
21st Century
Therapy
Holistic programs
Sports and Recreation
Continued use of medication
Preventative Measures
Biomedical v Biopsychosocial
Mind
Part of our psyche - separate from the brain
Trauma and adversity in childhood
Greater chance of compromised mental health
Poor social determinants of health conditions
Huge impact in life in adolescent/young adult years
See the person as a whole
Mental health patients deserve same respect as physical health patients
Brain
Mental illness seen as a biological problem/chemical imbalance
The physical, tangible organ
Diagnostic approach as best approach
Diagnoses can lead to only one kind of treatment/cure
See the disease, not the patient
The Unconscious
Societal Influences
Who?
Insurance Companies
Government
Other health care professionals
Young intellecuals
Scientists
Why?
Wanted diagnostic-based treatments and results
Profit
Therapies becoming more costly to the government
Validity of practice questioned
Social inequity