According to Kelly S. and McKenna, “Instead of people being integrated into the community, people with mental illness trade the isolation of the hospital for the isolation of the house or apartment.” This basically means that although the mentally ill are being introduced into society, the boundaries placed on them as far as needing continued outpatient therapy and treatment still have the basic concept of an asylum. Furthermore, along the lines of isolation, studies have shown that there is a positive correlation between homelessness and deinstitutionalization and even criminal …show more content…
The answer is that the community mental health centers are currently understaffed and continue to face increased understaffing. It has been said that there are over 2.2 million mentally ill who are not currently receiving treatment. Not only is there understaffing, but there is also nobody there to truly hold these patients accountable. Even at the end of the 1850s when moral treatment in hospitals was proven successful, severe funding and staffing shortages developed and recovery rates declined as we have seen similar in deinstitutionalization in the present time.
It seems as though the trend suggests that those with severe mental illness fail to make lasting recoveries and get caught in the revolving door between hospitals, jail, and being in the community. Traditional hospitals are not set up for the long-term care these patients need and therefore when they are released, the sick cycle