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I CAN
Explain the use of hospitalization
Brainstorm ways to deinstitutionalized the chronically mentally ill
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2. Hospitalization and the Alternatives
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Hospitals
Provide an immediate solution to an immediate danger: suicidal/homicidal thoughts, psychosis, etc BUT this is not a good long term solution. Instead…
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4. Therapeutic Community
Program of treating mental disorder by making the institutional environment supportive and humane for patients.

5. Deinstitutionalization
Policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals.
1950’s state hospital ward
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6. Community Mental Health Movement
Effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients and to provide therapy from outpatient clinics
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Homeless in America
23% of Homeless in America are diagnosed with Mental Illness
45% of homeless veterans have mental disorders
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CAN I
Explain the use of hospitalization
Brainstorm ways to deinstitutionalized the chronically mentally ill
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One more chapter to go!
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