Problem
Inadequate mental hospitals
Other Names:
Inadequate psychiatric institutionsInhumane mental asylums
Nature:
Instead of being located in the community it serves, the traditional mental hospital is usually of remote location from this community. It is also large in size - hence the custodial rather than the rehabilitative approach on the part of the staff and the lack of psychotherapeutic contacts between staff and patients. Day care and day hospital services for the elderly mentally ill are particularly lacking. Comprehensive mental illness services have failed to materialize. Mental hospitals are often too inward-looking and hospital-orientated, while community need goes unmet. In addition, there are often not enough mental hospitals, and the poor and criminals then tend not to receive the mental health services they need. Broader Problems:
Inadequate mental illness servicesDenial of rights of patients suffering from mental illness Narrower Problems:
Lack of mental hospital services for prisoners Strategies:
Improving mental hospitals References:
Goffman, Erving: Asylums: essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmatesBarton, Russell: Institutional NeurosesGoffman, Erving: Asylums Subject(s):
Societal Problems → InadequacyHealth Care → Mental health
Health Care → Hospitals
Health Care → Psychiatry
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST