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by ende
2635 days ago
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> That said, I don't think many of the mentally ill need to be forced into an institution under the old model, but we really do need a mechanism to deal with ill people resistant to treatment. This is the mission statement right here. Very well said. There are quite a few articles/blogs/etc out there from psychiatric professionals who were practicing before deinstitutionalization, many of whom were champions of the reforms, but who in retrospect question whether it should have happened (or at least how it was executed and how ‘community mental health’ never really took off). Maybe it’s time to revisit the concept of mental institutions, albeit a more humane model. |
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There isn't a more humane model. If you're forcing people into an institution you're also going to be forcign them to take medication and if you're not very careful there's a bunch of other restrictive practice and other bad stuff that happens. The main ones would be use of rapid tranquilisation, use of prone restraint and supine restraint, and sexual assualt from staff and other patients.
A better model would be correctly funded assertive outreach teams.