Deinstitutionalization: An American Travesty

Based on these misunderstandings, the government concluded that many psychiatric patients no longer needed many hospitals and facilities. In their view, we now have a way to save a lot of money and provide more freedom and self-sufficiency to psychiatric patients - they are wrong. The first step in the process of institutionalization is to eliminate all mentally disabled and mentally disabled people from all domestic organizations regardless of their choice or external, community, or family support.

Overall there are, on the whole, organized relief, the lives of millions of Americans living in mental and developmental disorders (I / DD) have been improved. These policies allow people to gain correct support on the scale of people within their own community. Second, with a number of exceptions, disengagement from the facility is far less successful to meet the needs of Americans with serious mental illness (SMI). Let's consider the trajectories of the two people who are affected by these policies. The first man, Vincent Perrone, is my brother-in-law (on the right). His mental intelligence comes from brittle X syndrome. For the past 38 years, Janice and Greg Perrone of my in-law have looked after him until the day of Janice's death. Then Vincent moved with us. He currently lives in a group residence nearby

In the 1950s, more than half a million people lived in American psychiatric hospitals - one in 300 Americans. Thanks to the joint efforts of psychiatrists, philanthropists, politicians psychiatric patients, by the end of the 1970s only 160,000 people did so. Today, 7,100 Americans have a mental bed. To put it briefly, the motivation behind this trend is diverse. Emptying evacuation centers saves you money. Anyway, who needs shelter, and which are all excellent antipsychotics now on the market? Institutionalization will restore the citizens' rights and protect them from the harsh conditions of popularity of movies and memoirs, and they are often the truth. "We were completely kicked out," my mother remembered entering the CPI and visiting my older sister. "It's like flying over cuckoo's nest, people just sit down and talk to the hospital's underwear space and speak to them." - Smart people become crazy and crazy people can heal Low sex

Today, the new trend is unemployment of mental hospitals, which means to treat people with local psychiatric disorders. The non-organizational policy began in the mid-1970s. In 1963, the National Psychiatric Hospital was often thought to be an institution that isolates psychiatric patients. In response to this perceived mental health problem, Congress converts mentally disabled patients from long-term imprisonment in overcrowded camps to voluntary treatment in the community mental health center "Regional spirit Health Center Act ". On October 31, 1963, President Kennedy considered the mental hospital "heavy pit" and signed the "Regional Mental Health Center Act" as a law. This policy is said to have been caused by concern for people with mental illness. However, economic consideration is not excluded. However, the structural breakdown policy failed. 2003)