PSYC 3690 Chapter Notes -Involuntary Commitment, Psychiatric Services, Vocational Rehabilitation
24 Sep 2013
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Board-and-care home -a congregate living facility in the community for persons with mental illness. After hospitalization, a continuing program of treatment and rehabilitation designed to reinforce the effects of therapy and to help patients adjust to their environment. Provide room, board, minimal staff supervision and in some states, dispensing of medication community. A condition in which a person, as a result of a mental disorder, is unable to provide his or her basic personal needs for food, clothing or shelter. A syndrome characterized by lack of initiative, apathy, withdrawal, submissiveness to authority, and excessive dependence on the institution. Deinstitutionalization -the mass exodus of mentally ill persons from living in hospitals to living in the. In the 1960"s, it was found that people who spent long periods in mental hospitals developed what has come to be known as institutionalism. Sociologists argue that in total institutions (e. g. state mental hospitals) impersonal treatment can strip away patient"s dignity and individuality and foster regression.
