SOCIAL CHANGE AND MENTAL HEALTH - Mercer University



SOCIAL CHANGE AND MENTAL HEALTH

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

At the completion of this lesson the student will be able to

1. Identify agents of social change that affect the delivery of mental health care.

2. Relate the concept of social change to the history of psychiatric mental health care.

3. Discuss the history of psychiatric-mental health nursing and its place within nursing history.

4. Analyze the theoretic arguments that shaped the development of contemporary scientific thought.

5. Summarize the impact of the current economic and political forces on the delivery of mental health services.

CONTENT OUTLINE:

1. A Revolutionary Idea: Humane Treatment

2. The 19th and Early 20th Centuries

1. Horace Mann and the Beginning of Public Responsibility

2. A Social Reformer: Dorothea Lynde Dix

3. Life Within Early Institutions

4. Development of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Thought

1. Early Views

2. Social Influences

3. Modern Thinking

1. Evolution of Scientific Thought

1. Meyer and Psychiatric Pluralism

2. Freud and the Psychoanalytic Theory

3. Diagnostic Classifications

4. Integration of Biologic Theories Into Psychosocial Treatment

2. Increased Government Involvement in Mental Health Care

3. Continued Evolution of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

4. The Late 20th Century

1. Community Health Movement and Deinstitutionalization

2. Sanctioning of Holistic Nursing Care

3. Contemporary Issues

1. Changing Demographics

2. The Age of Managed Care

3. National Mental Health Objectives

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

1. Study Guide: Chapter 1: 1-5 pp.

2. Participation in Classroom critical thinking activities.

3. Quiz

4.

CRITICAL THINKING FOCUS:

How the concepts of mental health/mental illness are a product of history. What is the history of professional nursing care in mental health and mental illness.

REQUIRED READING:

Boyd, M. A. (2005). Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice.(3rd.. Ed., pp. 3-15). Philadelphia:

Lippincott.

WEB LINKS:

This is the Healthy People 2010 website.

This website of the U.S. Surgeon General contains major mental health reports.

The National Library of Medicine site offers excellent access to PUBMED for nursing articles and mental health information. It provides links to the History in Medicine Library.

This site is an excellent resource on disorders and diagnoses and provides links to other sites.

This site provides access to the Mental Health Net, self-help groups, professional resources, and discussions.

This Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics site provides national statistics on alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drug use, substance abuse treatment, and mental health.

This site of the World Health Organization has information on mental health disability and programs.

This site provides access to “Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America. Final Report of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (July 2003).

NUR 411: KEELEY 6/04

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