50 years after deinstitutionalization : mental illness in contemporary communities.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perry, Brea L.

Series:

Advances in medical sociology ; v. 17.

Advances in medical sociology, 1057-6290 ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill--Deinstitutionalization.

Mentally ill.

Mental illness--Public opinion.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald, 2016.

Summary:

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a revolution in mental health policy and practice known as deinstitutionalization occurred in Europe and the US. This movement was catalyzed by criticisms of psychiatric institutions and resulted in the release of thousands of people with serious mental illness from long-term care facilities into the community. It is acknowledged that these reforms held great promise, but have had numerous unintended negative consequences. Moreover, deinstitutionalization has strained the resources and reach of community-based mental health treatment systems, spilling into other institutions such as criminal justice and education. Volume 17 of Advances in Medical Sociology will examine deinstitutionalizations legacies approximately 50 years after reintegration began, turning a critical lens toward contemporary problems and solutions related to mental illness in countries where reform occurred. This volume will highlight pressing issues around mental health treatment, social and health policy, and the lived experiences of people and families coping with mental illness that were or continue to be significantly influenced by deinstitutionalization reforms.

Contents:

Same problem, different century: issues in recreating the functions of public psychiatric hospitals in community based settings / William Fisher, Jeffrey Geller, Dana McMannus

"Forever children" and autonomous citizens: comparing the deinstitutionalizations of psychiatric patients and developmentally disabled individuals in the US / Adrianna Bagnall, Gil Eyal

An institutional analysis of public sector mental health in the post-deinstitutionalization era / Teresa Scheid

Social environment and mental illness: the progress and paradox of deinstitutionalization / Russell Schutt

The revolving door: patient needs and network turnover during mental health treatment / Will Mcconnell, Brea Perry

Understandings of community among people using publicly funded community mental health services / Alisa Lincoln, Wallis Adams

Revisiting the relationships among community mental health services, stigma and well-being / Kristen Marcussen, Christian Ritter

The self-stigma of psychiatric patients: implications for identities, emotions, and the life course / Sarah Harkness, Amy Kroska, Bernice Pescosolido

The "dignity of the sick": managing social stigma by mental patients in the community / Nana Tuntiya

Borderline personality disorder and the biomedical mismatch / Sandra Sulzer, Gracie Jackson, Ashelee Yang

Soldier, elder, prisoner, ward: psychotropics in the era of transinstitutionalization / Anthony Hatch, Marik Xavier-Brier, Brandon Attell, Eryn Viscarra.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781785604027

1785604023

OCLC:

957126644