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Post by Admin on Jan 19, 2024 17:27:56 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2024 15:08:34 GMT
“Impairment: Says Who?”: The Fundamental Question of Mental Health Treatment By Crystal Nelson -January 23, 2024 www.madinamerica.com/2024/01/impairment-says-who/One of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required. Functional impairment may seem like a clear criterion on the surface, but in practical application, it is not in the slightest. Some important questions to consider are: “Who defines the concept of impairment?” and “How is clinically significant distress analyzed as a construct?” Impairment itself is subjective, and the amount of discourse this topic has in the mental health system is sorely lacking considering its importance in clinical settings.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2024 3:54:09 GMT
In the US, ‘Mental Health Treatment’ Can Be a Death Sentence February 8, 2024 www.madinamerica.com/2024/02/in-the-us-mental-health-treatment-can-be-a-death-sentence/From The Nation: “Amid ongoing emergencies . . . the United States has slipped quietly toward an assault on civil liberties as an answer to plummeting mental health. From coast to coast, state lawmakers of both parties are reaching for coercive treatment and involuntary commitment to address spiraling substance use and overdose crises—an approach that will only escalate despair and multiply otherwise preventable deaths while helping to choke the life out of America. . . . Across the country, the involuntary detainment and institutional commitment of people with ‘mental illness’—including those with a substance use disorder—is on the rise. Deploying the language of ‘helping’ those in need, policymakers are reaching not for a band-aid but a club, with scant or even contradictory evidence that such an approach will benefit those who are in pain. ‘The process can involve being strip-searched, restrained, secluded, having drugs forced on you, losing your credibility,’ said UCLA professor of social welfare David Cohen in a 2020 statement about his research on involuntary commitment. He co-authored a study that found its use rose nationwide in the decade before the pandemic hit, even as there was a striking lack of transparency regarding when or how such coercion was used.” www.thenation.com/article/society/mental-health-overdose-crisis/
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 22:00:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on Feb 10, 2024 22:02:10 GMT
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