PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Supportive Housing, Service Canada, Deinstitutionalisation
22 Oct 2020
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The human costs of deinstitutionalisation and limited access to service. Canada has undergone an extensive process of psychiatric bed reduction and closure. Deinstitutionalization was an attempt to reintegrate the mentally ill with the rest o canadian society and to prevent involuntary hospitalisation and treatment. To this point many professionals and psychiatric survivors or consumers would consider it an abject failure. The preferred mental health service model is one that emphasises intensive local community supports and services, along with the general-hospital psychiatric units and regional tertiary care centres (the provincial psychiatric hospitals or their replacements) Reported that psychiatric patients are being discharged earlier. Shorter general hospital stays were hypothesised to be due to the pressure to free up hospital beds, which frequently results in people being discharged prematurely. Two national problems: (1) homelessness and mental illness (2) the jailing of mentally ill people.
