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The New Asylums Essay

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The requirement of this reflection has to relate to a learning source lectured upon during this semester, Intro to Psychology. This particular topic focusses on, removing our mental ill members from, society. However there should something said about the relocation efforts by our local and federal agencies. The source that prompted my writing is provided by PBS and is one of the movies found on frontline. The name of this topic is “The new Asylums.” During the nineteen seventies and into the eighties, mental institutions were starting to close part of this reason was that slowly society became horrified to house people in state hospitals, who were more often than not large warehouse looking facilities of dehumanizing abuse. Furthermore because of a new thinking trend in the medial world and because of advancement in medication it …show more content…

However because of a shrinking budget there is not always funds and assistance available to help those who need it the most. Loss of jobs, lead to poverty and ultimately become a breeding ground for mental illness. We already learned during this course that there is a 50-50 ratio of environment and genetic courses for the existence of mental health problems. The incapacity for those to get mental and/or medical help is only increasing because of the presence of poverty within the family. With the thought of loss of jobs, financial hardship, many people mentally reach a breaking point in their lives reach out to opportunities that is considered defiant in this culture. Often this defiant behavior involves breaking of the law. Another trend is that returning military personal, into society, bring a luggage of trauma experienced while serving. Without the proper treatment and after care, some of the behavior can be violent and disruptive. Family members break apart and finding themselves dependent of

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