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You seem to imply that I'm proposing something new and radical, whereas I'm actually just describing how community mental health is practised in a lot of places
by jdietrich 8y ago
You seem to imply that I'm proposing something new and radical, whereas I'm actually just describing how community mental health is practised in a lot of places, including some parts of the US.
I wouldn't be willing to work as a psychiatric nurse or a social worker, but clearly plenty of people are. There are all sorts of jobs I wouldn't want that other people love and vice-versa.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoI would need some firm data showing plenty of people are willing to work with people who may pose a danger to them. Retail work is considered to be bottom of the barrel because you have to deal with the general public, I don’t see people lining up to spend years of their education to deal with mentally ill customers. At least not without significant compensation, which we as a society don’t want to pay for, considering the piss poor pay for social workers and lack of mental institutions.
- jdietrich 8y agoA large number of people have the job title "mental health nurse" or "psychiatric nurse". A majority of those people spend a majority of their time working with the most seriously ill people. For a high-income country, the US has an unusually low number of mental health nurses relative to the overall population; there are more than five times as many mental health nurses per capita in the UK, Scandinavia, New Zealand or Japan. https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/nursing_atlas_2007.pdf https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/nursing_atlas_200...