Write an essay of at least 900 words, describing what mental health care was like in our country in the 1950s and 1960s and how it led to the deinstitutionalization of mental health care in our country, and what mental health care is like today and how the movement started as a noble dream, but ended with many adverse consequences, especially how lack of care and treatment for people with mental illness has contributed to mass incarceration in our country.ntroduction – Overview of the topic. Thesis. 100 words.
Body 1: What was mental health care like in the 1950s and 1960s? How did deinstutionalization start? What did it want to achieve? In what way was it a success? History review and statistics from Ford. 250 words.
Body 2: Why does the author describe the mental health care situation today as worse than it was before? What went wrong with deinstitutionalization? What happened during the Great Recession? Describe one adverse consequence of deinstitutionalization: lack of care and suicides. Examples and statistics from Szabo and Ford. 250 words.
Body 3: Describe another adverse consequence of deinstitutionalization: lack of care and incarceration of people with mental illness. Crime of survival, self-medication and perverse incentive. Examples and statiistics from Ford, Szabo, and Ornstein and Leifman. 250 words.
Conclusion – Summary of main ideas. Needed policy changes (Ornstein and Leifman) . 100 words.
Requirements:
State your thesis clearly at the end of your introductory paragraph.
Start your body paragraphs with topic sentence.
Use examples, statistics, and policy proposals from Ford, Szabo, and Ornstein and Leifman.
Quote from the sources in each of the body paragraphs.
Follow proper in-text citation format.
In-text citation and works cited format:
When you quote, pay attention to the proper format.
TEXTS THAT NEED TO BE USED IN ESSAY :
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/mental-illness-treatment-funding-incarceration/643115/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/12/mental-health-system-crisis/7746535/#
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/americas-largest-mental-hospital-is-a-jail/395012/