Are community services effective in supporting people with severe mental illness?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Period Harnasns1

CHAPTER 2: WHAT MENTAL ILLNESS WAS IN THE PAST?3

How things have change3

CHAPTER 3: GROWTH OF PSYCHIATRY4

What mental illness is today?4

Biomedical model5

Social model5

Symptoms5

Causes6

Treatments6

Types of mental illness6

Neurosis7

Psychosis7

CHAPTER 4: MENTAL ILLNESS CARE IN THE UK?9

In the hospitals9

Within the Community9

CHAPTER 5: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNITY CARE11

The NHSCC 199011

How they began to be cared for within the community and why?11

Are community services effective in supporting people with severe mental illness?

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Mental disorders dates back to the prehistoric era, a time in which the primitive civilizations used trepanation as a remedy for aches and other mental disorders. Subsequently, the ancient civilizations identified and treated a number of mental disorders. The Greeks credit the terms of melancholy, hysteria and phobia and develop the theory of humours. Theories and treatments have been developed during the Ottoman Empire, particularly in the Islamic world from the 8th century, a period during which psychiatric hospitals were built (Boldero, J. 1995, 440-462).

Period Harnasns

At the beginning of Haransns period, scientific inquiry methods appeared by the effort of Doctor Shutzer Paracelsus (1490-1541), who was one of the first person studying superstition concerning obsessions. From the sixteenth century increased the number of special institutions called designated shelters for the mentally ill. Shelters first indeed were terrible, and blood to prison than to hospitals, patients who stayed in the shelter are in France and Vienna were imprisoned in solitary confinement and the match has not been cleaned ever, visitors could look at them for a nominal fee of one penny in 1792 changed that Philip finale when opened their chains of hospital and let them loose into the courtyard of the shelter. He was the first who treated these patients access to rehabilitation (Bringle, R. G., & Hatcher, J. A. 1996, 221-239).

Aim and Objectives and Approach

The aim of the research is to understand the effect of community service on the mentally ill. The research will study how community service is helping the mentally ill in coping with their illness, and how it can better do so.

CHAPTER 2: WHAT MENTAL ILLNESS WAS IN THE PAST?

In earlier periods of Western culture and other countries, mental disorders are considered as the entry of demons and ghosts or the possession of a person's body. The decision whether the obsessed person is a good spirit or bad, was generally depends on symptoms expressed by him. If there was a speech and behaviour disorder, this meant that the obsession with a good wind, and the individual was often treated with respect and awe; but most often the symptoms were considered as acts of angry gods or evil spirits, especially when the person becomes agitated or too active (Eyler, J., & Giles, D. 1999, 55). They gradually incorporated with more humane treatment methods, such as housing patients in temples, sympathetic and pleasant activities such as games and outings. Treatments recommended by Hippocrates were advanced in many rites of exorcism and are prevalent in his day, and ...