Mental Health and Institutionalisation

Winner of the Greater London Training Award

Course Profile: Mental Health & Institutionalisation (1-2 Days)

This course aims to provide an overview of the development of Mental Health services in the UK from Institutional to Community Care. Participants will examine the practices that were used to contain patients and the treatments used in the management of Mental Illness.. Having explored the impact of institutional care on the individual, participants will identify the elements of institutional care that have transferred into more contemporary settings. They will consider how Institutionalisation can be prevented and the integrity of the individual Service User preserved.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of the course participants should have:

Gained an understanding of the development of Mental Health services since the Victorian era

Understood the nature and dynamics of Institutionalisation

Understood approaches to supporting Service Users that are less likely to disempower and Institutionalise

Course content:

A brief history of Mental Health services in the UK from the Victorian era until the present

Traditional attitudes towards people experiencing mental distress and practices that supported these

Methods used in the treatment of mental Illness (to include isolation, punitive ECT, behaviour modification, sedation etc

Institutional and individual abuse

How Institutionalisation works and the negative impact of this on the individual

Staff power and control

What can we learn from the past?

How Institutionalisation could manifest in contemporary settings

An approach towards Service Users that minimise the risk of disempowerment

Working methods:

Tutor presentations OHP presentations Chalk and talk
Group work Pairs & triads work Hand outs

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