mental institutions

How And Why Theologians Created The Mental Health Movement?

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How And Why Theologians Created The Mental Health Movement? The origin of the mental hygiene movement can be attributed to the work of Clifford Beers in the USA. In 1908 he published A mind that found itself 4, a book based on his personal experience of admissions to three mental hospitals. Who started the mental

How Have Jails Become Defacto Mental Health Institutions?

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How Have Jails Become Defacto Mental Health Institutions? The most important factors that led to deinstitutionalisation were changing public attitudes to mental health and mental hospitals, the introduction of psychiatric drugs and individual states’ desires to reduce costs from mental hospitals. When did they do away with mental institutions? Too many people who were institutionalized