PSY 0515 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Community Integration, Chlorpromazine, Deinstitutionalisation
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Insane people were possessed by evil: being born under a full moon, lunacy , mania and melancholy (depression, treatment: catharsis, get the devil out, vomiting, bleeding, electrical shock. Mental institutions: asylums, overcrowding decline in care, 1930s lobotomy, 1954 thorazine. Deinstitutionalization: 60s and 70s, 90% of people are eventually discharged into the community for treatment. 70s and 80s little or no hope for recovery. Physical rehab as a model for psych rehab. Psychiatric rehabilitation: promotes recovery and full community rehabilitation. Capacity of every individual to learn and grow. Achieving recovery: maximum client involvement, preference and choice. Involuntary admittances to the hospital during a mental health crisis. Based on the idea that the environment is very important in recovery. Partial hospitalization movement: medical model program, psychiatrists on staff (different from clubhouse) Mileu therapy: every aspect of the environment can be used for recovery. Stigma and discrimination: need to disclose and risk discrimination for accommodations.
