PSYC 3690 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Promotion, Pap Test, Medieval Commune
15 Feb 2013
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The availability and development of psychoactive medications the medications allowed for deinstitutionalization. Background of community mental health, where it came from, historic factors. 1950s and 1960s when the community mental health approach was developed. People were removed from mental hospitals and treated in the community on an outpa- tient basis. When people symptoms and strange behaviour/thoughts could be managed through medication, it meant that people were more amenable to talking therapy. Made it easier to talk to people about their issues. Also made it easier to bring people with serious mental disorders into the community. Community-based treatment was possible because they weren"t so scary: challenge to mental hospitals there were a series of investigative reports about mental hospitals. Stories were of a snake-pit environment where no treatment was being administered. Gave people more contact to society - brought in volunteers. Allows patients fur lows where they would go with a group and leave the hospital.
