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Week 9: Family Advocacy. PSRT 4271: The Family Role in Rehabilitation. First, Something Not So Unrelated…. Electroconvulsive Therapy Considerations (as undertaken this week by a family…). What Was Proposed…. Background. Proposal. Age: 27 (male) Diagnosis: Dual Sensitivity: some meds
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Week 9: Family Advocacy PSRT 4271: The Family Role in Rehabilitation
First, Something Not So Unrelated… Electroconvulsive Therapy Considerations (as undertaken this week by a family…)
What Was Proposed… Background Proposal • Age: 27 (male) • Diagnosis: Dual • Sensitivity: some meds • Complaint: Voices • Situation: Level 4 • 21 days so far • Time running out? • Plan: Rehab Residential • ECT • Treatment: “a few seconds” • Seizure: ~15 minutes • 6-12 sessions • 2 more weeks inpatient • Anesthesia, relaxant • Outcome? “Whispers” • Follow-up: “Maintenance” • “Nicholson will go to hell for his movie…”
Electroconvulsive Therapy (1986) 20 minute clip: http://www.medclip.com/index.php?page=videos§ion=view&vid_id=109703
ECT today • Carol Kivler Also: http://www.psychodyssey.net/?page_id=1931
1955: The prevailing Theory “When a domineering, nagging and hostile mother...is married to a dependent, weak man...the weak parent...becomes antagonistic and hostile toward the children...” SilvanioArieti Interpretation of Schizophrenia, 1955 National Book Award - 1975
1960s: Deinstitutionalization begins • California: from 37,000 in 1950s… • …to ~19,000 by 1969
1969: Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) • California Community Mental Health Services Act • Involuntary: 17 days only • LPS: “unholy alliance” (Torrey, 2008) • Lanterman: “conservative curmudgeon” antipsychiatry • Petris: ultra-liberal civil rights • Legacy • From 19,000 7,000 by 1973
Early 1970s • A “Psychiatric Titanic”
Early 1970s: Articles begin to appear… Appleton, W. S. (1974). Mistreatment of patients' families by psychiatrists. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 131(6), 655-657.
1972: National Schizophrenia Fellowship(United Kingdom) • John Pringle’s 1970 Letter to The Times…
1974: Parents of Adult Schizophrenics • Eve Oliphant
1975: Tony Hoffman pushes local advances • CA: Legislation puts two family members on every county mental health board
1977: Eve Oliphant at World Congress of Psychiatry “We failed to understand why parents of a child with leukemia were treated with sympathy and understanding, while parents of a child with schizophrenia were treated with scorn and condemnation."
Late 1970s: Statewide Organization • 1979: California Association Families of the Mentally Ill ( 1982: CAMI)
Late 1970s: The Movement Grows • Other parents organize in other states
1979: NAMI Founded • Harriet Shetler and other mothers in Wisconsin invite all to unify…
NAMI Advocacy • National • State
…, 2 • Local • Resources: http://www.psychodyssey.net/?page_id=3304