CNCSP 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: William Tuke, Moral Treatment, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act
6 Mar 2019
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Understanding the job market: history of field, understanding social policy, what is it, the making of social choices about life in an organized social unit. Individuals with mental illness: hipaa, how do we define mental illness, dsm. Families of people with mental illness: professionals who earn their living working with people with mental illness, a brief history of mental health policy. Five eras of american mental health policy: community care prior to the american revolution, moral treatment 1775-1830. Status: non-specialized care of the poor: resource allocation: local financing. Stakeholders: general public, providers of shelter, govt officials in care of indigent insane , policy/care strategies. Sell people as slaves, etc. to the cheapest bidder. Industrial nature of asylum care: commodity value of mentally ill. Status: specialized/segregated care: asylum and mental disease 1830s-1950s. Status allocation, rise of the professions: psychiatry, phrenology, resources allocation.
