User:Annamariefdaly/Institutional syndrome

Current Wikipedia article:

In Europe and North America, the trend of putting the mentally ill into mental hospitals began as early as the 17th century,[unreliable source?] and hospitals often focused more on "restraining" or controlling inmates than on curing them, although hospital conditions improved somewhat with movements for human treatment, such as moral management. By the mid-20th century, overcrowding in institutions,[unreliable source?] the failure of institutional treatment to cure most mental illnesses, and the advent of drugs such as Thorazine prompted many hospitals to begin discharging patients in large numbers, in the beginning of the deinstitutionalization movement (the process of gradually moving people from inpatient care in mental hospitals, to outpatient care).

Suggested changes: "1752 - The Quakers in Philadelphia were the first in America to make an organized effort to care for the mentally ill. The newly-opened Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia provided rooms in the basement complete with shackles attached to the walls to house a small number of mentally ill patients. Within a year or two, the press for admissions required additional space, and a ward was opened beside the hospital. Eventually, a new Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane was opened in a suburb in 1856 and remained open under different names until 1998"

Suggested changes: "By 1890, every state had built one or more publicly supported mental hospitals, which all expanded in size as the country’s population increased. By mid-20th century, the hospitals housed over 500,000 patients but began to diminish in size as new methods of treatment became available."

Source: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/early.html

Suggested Added information: "The environment can be inherently damaging to mental health by removing people from society and eliminating meaning and purpose from their lives. On top of that, the appalling conditions common in prisons and jails — such as overcrowding, solitary confinement, and routine exposure to violence — can have further negative effects. Researchers have even theorized that incarceration can lead to “Post-Incarceration Syndrome,” a syndrome similar to PTSD, meaning that even after serving their official sentences, many people continue to suffer the mental effects."

"Some researchers suggest that the trauma people experience behind bars can lead to Post-Incarceration Syndrome, a syndrome that shares characteristics with PTSD. A 2013 study of 25 released lifers found that participants experienced a specific cluster of mental health symptoms, including institutionalized personality traits (like distrusting others, difficulty maintaining relationships, and problems making decisions), social-sensory disorientation (issues with spatial reasoning and difficulty with social interactions), and social and temporal alienation (the feeling of not belonging in social settings)."

Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/05/13/mentalhealthimpacts/

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marieke-Liem/publication/236636420_Is_there_a_recognizable_post-incarceration_syndrome_among_released_lifers/links/5b17d95fa6fdcca67b5d90aa/Is-there-a-recognizable-post-incarceration-syndrome-among-released-lifers.pdf

Suggested added information: "Browne's findings showed that institutions negatively affect a child's social behavior and interaction with others, as well as negatively affecting the formation of emotional attachments. Additionally, being institutionalized was linked to poor cognitive performance and language deficits. To combat the detrimental effects of institutionalization on young children, UNICEF launched a deinstitutionalization campaign after the United Nations (UN) General Assembly released guidelines saying that no child under 3 years of age should be in institutional care."

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK373333/

There are only 3 sections to this article. The introduction, the background and one body paragraph labeled issues for discharged patients. To add more to the article there should be a section that talks about different kinds of institutional syndrome. For example, patients who have been in medical care for a long time that are suddenly released. Inmates that are in jail for a long time and then are released. And then adolescents that are hospitalized or institutionalized in places like juvenile centers and then released. These are 3 majors situation where this term would come into play and they are not explained in the article at all.

It would also be nice if there was another section or if more information about what kind of predisposed illnesses were more likely to be affected by institutional syndrome were added as well.