Deinstitutionalization Essay
* How did deinstitutionalization affect the local community in your article?
Deinstitutionalization affected the community in the article I found because it over loaded the local jails. So many people were released from the mental hospital with nowhere to go. They were on the streets doing anything and everything to survive, steeling, robbing, and acting out in general. They were not on their med’s because they were not given to them, they were just pushed out to fend for themselves with no skills to do so. It is no wonder a lot of them ended up in jail and becoming a menace to society. This challenged the community and their health authorities to develop effective meaningful roles for these individuals. They had to figure out the best was to set up the new services the …show more content…
They started getting more support for the delivery of mental health services as they took away funding from the state institutions. I could not find in my article what the community was dealing with the problems of deinstitutionalization. I would think they would have to have more patrols in order to combat the rising crime. Open new shelters and offer more mental services so that they can stay on their med’s if they want to. A program like a half way house would have been a great way to reintroduce them in to society and let them get used to being on their own. They would defiantly have to make awareness of communicable disease a top priority if they want to keep that under control. The big problem and one they cannot do much about are the people who are released and do not want to take their med’s. You cannot force someone to take med’s but them they go out after you release them commit a crime and can get off because they are mentally unstable. I do not think this is right but what can you
Deinstitutionalization affected the community in the article I found because it over loaded the local jails. So many people were released from the mental hospital with nowhere to go. They were on the streets doing anything and everything to survive, steeling, robbing, and acting out in general. They were not on their med’s because they were not given to them, they were just pushed out to fend for themselves with no skills to do so. It is no wonder a lot of them ended up in jail and becoming a menace to society. This challenged the community and their health authorities to develop effective meaningful roles for these individuals. They had to figure out the best was to set up the new services the …show more content…
They started getting more support for the delivery of mental health services as they took away funding from the state institutions. I could not find in my article what the community was dealing with the problems of deinstitutionalization. I would think they would have to have more patrols in order to combat the rising crime. Open new shelters and offer more mental services so that they can stay on their med’s if they want to. A program like a half way house would have been a great way to reintroduce them in to society and let them get used to being on their own. They would defiantly have to make awareness of communicable disease a top priority if they want to keep that under control. The big problem and one they cannot do much about are the people who are released and do not want to take their med’s. You cannot force someone to take med’s but them they go out after you release them commit a crime and can get off because they are mentally unstable. I do not think this is right but what can you