PSYC 3600 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Recovery Approach, Deinstitutionalisation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3600
• Professor: Diane Lawless

Document Summary

Mental illness is the loss of mental health, and a pathological development that affects intellectual functioning, mood states, and behaviour to the point of seriously affecting and individuals professional and social standing. Delays to access; inadequate number of beds in hospital, and lack of proper community facilities, affect caregivers and family of mentally ill. Casualties may happen under stress of taking care of such individuals or their violent acts. Mental illness affect different subpopulations such as aboriginals, the homeless, and inmates. In inmates depression reaches about every 1 in 3, and every 1 in 2 has been affected by drug or alcohol dependence. 84. 2% in male inmates and 40. 7% in female inmates. Mentally ill among the physically ill population affects the health budget. For many years mentally ill were sent to far away asylums or mental hospitals. This custodial model is a lack of understanding mental conditions and lack of effective treatment.