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Early practices of MH in Medieval times
✓ looking at blood, phlegm, yellow/black bile as an indication of MH; personal
religious beliefs influenced dx/ treatment
MH care before 1900s
✓ -used restraint chairs
✓ -"hospital for the insane"
MH care early 1900s
✓ -more moral treatment
✓ -provided work/ occupations
✓ -removed restraints
✓ -encouraged participation
mental hygiene movement
✓ Mid-19th-century effort to improve care of the mentally disordered by informing
the public of their mistreatment.
Adolf Meyer
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✓ psychiatrist who presented his paper on mental hygiene at a conference
Clifford Beers
✓ -Described own mental collapse in A Mind That Found Itself
✓ -Began campaign for reform
✓ -lived with anxiety/ depression which spearheaded the mental hygiene
movement
1920 Rehab Act
✓ federal program; provides vocational assistance for people whose disabilities
were a result of war (including mental illnesses)
Americans with Disabilities Act
✓ Passed by Congress in 1991, this act banned discrimination against the disabled
in employment and mandated easy access to all public and commerical
buildings.
Olmstead Decision
✓ decision passed by supreme court ruling against forced long term
institutionalization
What sparked Olmstead Decision?
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✓ Two women with mental illness and developmental disability were voluntarily
admitted to a state run psych unit. Eventually MH professionals recommended
they be moved to a community-based program but the women stayed confined
for YEARS, they eventually filed a suit under ADA
Recovery movement
✓ -2000s civil rights movement
✓ -began in response to MH care system that supported social inequities and
discrimination, that hindered community inclusion and recovery
✓ -started by consumers, led by society
✓ -all people can and do recover
✓ -person is the expert of themselves
✓ -built on strength and empowerment, sense of belonging, adequate income
Self-directed
✓ Directed or guided by oneself, especially as an independent agent
individualized
✓ person-centered
empowerment
✓ giving people the power to make decisions
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