Lesson 13: Prevention and Health Promotion in Community Mental Health Attention If only this were true! Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this lesson's material, students will be able to:
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Lecture How could this be? Economic feasibilty, half-way facilities for re-integration to the community, and for that matter, a community that holds a stake in its citizenry may be at the heart of the problem. Conflicting, and competing outcomes are a formula for disaster. If the goal for mental health, and the management of criminal behavior is to hospitalize and/or institutionalize, then we will need facilities that can bed more than 2,000,000 people. That last is the number of people who are in prison at any given time in the United States. Earlier in this course, the question was posed about the interaction between mental illness, and ciminal activity. Worse, the question about mis-diagnosis, and/or missed diagnostic opportunity was posed about the mentally ill in prison, and the criminal in mental health facilities. In preparing to treat psychiatric disorder, or addiction, or infection, strategy that envsions the past, present, and the future needs to be available. It also needs to be subject to evaluation in terms of validity and reliability. It also needs to anticpate change and revision as resources fluctuate. I distinctly remember President Obama unveiling the B.R.A.I.N. innitiative in April, 2013. Do you remember his two aside comments after indicating research goals? One pertained to Alzheimer's disease, the other, Parkinson's disease. Finally, mental illness. He wondered if research in this emerging area might explain the problems he was having with Congress! He then took it one step further. He wondered if maybe Congress might need therapy. Funny asides, but deadly serious in these economic times. Needs Assessment Click HERE to read an article on the DISC Framework for community mental health needs assessment. This is a dated article but it is still very relevant. Assessment Lesson 13 Quiz
Lesson 13 Discussion What community based mental health issues have you seen in your community? Are they problems because they are chronic and unresolved? Or, has your community been pro-active and is succeeding in preventing spreading effects, and re-ocurrence?
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