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What do other countries do in terms of mental healthcare to prevent these kind of things? Better monitoring and response to early warning signs, and then forcef
by sportanova 12y ago
What do other countries do in terms of mental healthcare to prevent these kind of things? Better monitoring and response to early warning signs, and then forcefully committing patients?
- sp332 12y agoAmerica had a movement to "de-institutionalize", that is, to help known mentally ill people adapt and cope with day-to-day life instead of locking them all in asylums. But the funding got cut... so now we have inadequate support and they end up in prisons because there are no asylums. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/12/what-happened-to-u-s-mental-health-care-after-deinstitutionalization/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/12/w...
- sportanova 12y agoInteresting - but is that the same tactic that has been successful in other countries, that didn't cut funding?