DST 500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Deinstitutionalisation

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Since the end of the asylum era, mental health treatment has taken different forms. Discuss the meanings behind the redevelopment of the camh site, the increase of chemical restraint and treatment, and how the helping professions can challenge dominant practices. Asylums in the 1700s were used not only for mad people, but also for the physically disabled, criminalized, paupers, and other. Asylum populations grew tenfold in the later 19th century. Anti-institution movements began in the mid 1800s. Then deinstitutionalization began ; the closing of. Institutions and the movement of people out of.