Mental Illness, Homelessness, and Public Administration: Recommendations

Dealing with serious mental illnesses and homelessness is a complex problem that affects those who deal with diseases, their families, the community, and the government. In the past, people with severe mental illness had been treated at the facility, but in 1960 the policy was changed and treatment was transferred to the community (Newman & Goldman, 2009). Since then, problems have arisen in homes and support services for people with severe mental illness. After considering the current plan and policy in my first two articles, the following is a suggestion on how to improve the problem.

Mental illness is a common problem in our country today. The Drug Abuse and Mental Health Services Department estimates that 20 to 25% of our people are homeless with mental disorders (National Homeless Alliance, 2009). Many people with mental disorders eventually go to jail without proper care and supporting housing (NAMI, 2011). Without proper care, people with severe mental illness will not be able to work as a member of society (HCH Clinician's Network, 2000). - Treatment for people with mental illness begins in the long run. In 400 BC, Hippocrates was a Greek physician who considered psychosis as a disease of disability, not dissatisfaction with God and the devil ("Timeline: treatment"). Greek medical writers have discovered several treatments, such as the use of diseases medicine called quietness, occupation, diarrhea ("Timeline: Therapy")

Treatment of modern psychiatric disorders is closely related to the establishment of hospitals and evacuation centers in the 16th century. The mission of these agencies is to accommodate and restrict mentally handicapped, poor, homeless, unemployed and criminal. Due to the depression of the war and the economy, many unwelcome people separated from society and sent to these agencies were born. Two of the most famous institutions, Hôpital Général, including Bethlehem in London, Bedlam, and LaSalpêtrière, LaPitié, LaBicêtre, began offering facilities for mentally disabled from mid-16th century to the 17th century. As the focus of imprisonment law is to protect the public from mental illness, the government is responsible for housing and feeding people who do not welcome in exchange for their personal freedom. Most prisoners are institutionalized against their will, locked in dirty lives and locked on the walls, usually indicating public tolls.