Discuss the historical views of mental health and illness to illustrate the fact that societal conceptions of mental illness have greatly influenced the policies and programs designed to serve the mentally ill population.
What will be an ideal response?
Begin with Dorothea Dix, the pioneer reformer for the humane treatment of those with mental illness, and discuss how understanding mental illness as a medical disease and urbanization led to the rise of treatment facilities. Discuss the reasons for the numbers of people sent away to mental asylums (because of the increased intolerance among the public living in suburban neighborhoods for strange and abnormal behavior, by the 1950s, half a million people were so confined). Discuss how as a result of the worsening conditions in the insane asylums in the 1920s outpatient treatment for people who could afford it was established and how for the majority of those locked in the asylums inhumane treatment was a daily occurrence.
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