CRS XXXXXXXXXXBachelor of Community Mental Health, Alcohol & Other Drugs Date: Tuesday 24th March 2020 Class time: XXXXXXXXXX/ 5-8 pm Online study: resources accessed remotely through Moodle Course...

https://youtu.be/oswUssXzFlYThat’s the link of the video as need to answer the following questions according to the video!!


CRS1400478 Bachelor of Community Mental Health, Alcohol & Other Drugs Date: Tuesday 24th March 2020 Class time: 1.30-4.30/ 5-8 pm Online study: resources accessed remotely through Moodle Course based at Chisholm Institute, Berwick Campus Student name- CONTEXT OF THE MENTAL HEALTH INDUSTRY A Session 4- Deinstitutionalization Please answer the following questions as you watch the documentary on A History of the Madhouse from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEd_OAd-MBg The Documentary tells the fascinating and poignant story of the closure of Britain's mental asylums. In the post-war period, 150,000 people were hidden away in 120 of these vast Victorian institutions across the country. Today, most mental patients, or service users as they are now called, live out in the community and the asylums have all but disappeared. Through powerful testimonies from patients, nurses and doctors, the film explores this seismic revolution, deinstitutionalization and what it tells us about society's changing attitudes to mental illness over the last sixty years. Published August 19, 1917 [Accessed on 17 March 2018]. Please complete this answer sheet electronically and return it as a Word document attachment to [email protected] before Saturday 28th March 2020. 1. What types of disorder were experienced by people housed in large scale mental institutions? 2. What forms of treatment were available to patients? How effective were these treatments? 3. Why was brutal treatment and neglect evident in many mental institutions? What was meant by Erving Goffman’s concept of total institutions? 4. What do you think of Psychiatrist R. D. Laing’s central thesis in the book The Politics of Experience that “we live in a mad world and the normal response to a mad world is to be mad?” Was R. D. Laing part of the antipsychiatry movement? 5. As one of many libertarian movements of the time, what did the User Movement advocate for? 6. What were the determining factors that led to deinstitutionalization? 7. What do you think of the statement included within the documentary that “the community doesn’t care?” 8. Has our history of incarcerating individuals in secure mental institutions influenced community attitudes to mental health today? 9. Is it important to understand the history of mental health? Does this history have any bearing on mental health today? 10. What are the greatest barriers to effective care in the community today? 1