HSBH1012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Passive Treatment System, Psychoeducation, Clinical Psychology
20 Jul 2018
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Hsbh1012 introduction to health and health sciences. Lecture 6 approaches to health and health systems: sector focus mental. Mental illness: unable to receive good treatment due to stigma, access and cost stigma leading barrier to seeking care" stop stigma. Cultural shift: medical professionals guilty of discrimination, assumptions, fail to deliver appropriate care, asylums to current mental health care, asylums the original hospital/ treatment facility" for people with mental health problems. Many of those admitted could have been easily treatable in modern mental health care. National health service (1948) asylums included with other hospitals therapy for mental illness was limited by psychiatrists began to experiment. Physical interventions = electro-convulsive therapy, insulin doses, lobotomy subject to barbaric treatment very misguided. Psychiatric was seen as a rapidly developing branch of medicine. Morality was questioned = greater compassion treatment social conscious shut down asylums. Power struggles to bring down establishment social shifts civil libertarian.
