hx of mental health nursing

mental health nursing

nursing practice specialty committed to promoting mental health through the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of. behavioral problems, mental disorders, and co-morbid conditions across the lifespan

psychiatric nurses

specialize in mental health nursing care for persons with a primary diagnosis of a mental disorder

includes self concept and body image issues, developmental crises, co-morbid disorders, end of life changes, emotional stress related to illness, disability or loss

Linda Richards

first psych nurse in USA

Effie Taylor

integrated psych nursing content into curriculum

Harriet Bailey

wrote first psych nursing testbook in 1920

Hildegard Peplau

mother of psych nursing

comprehensive care and support of mentally ill

psych nurses as counselors

premoral treatment era

800bc - colonial period

inhumane treatment

1845

first mental health hospital in New Jersey

moral treatment period

1700-1790

Philippe Pinel

humane treatment

William Tuke

sympathetic care and humane care advocate

Quakers

humane advocates

Horace Mann

government financing

Dorothea Lynde Dix

humane treatment and expansion of state hospitals

asylums and better care

1900-1955

institutionalization as primary treatment

Clifford Beers and National Committee for Mental Hygiene

Sigmund Freud and psychoanalytic movement

neurosis and psychosis

WWII and view of mental illness as affecting anyone

National Mental Health Act

Hill-Burton Act

National Mental Health Act

prioritize mental health research/services in USA

Hill-Burton Act

loans and grants to improve hospital psych treatments

1950s and beyond

psychopharmacology

action for mental health- research, recruitment, training, clinics

community treatment

deinstitutionalization

contemporary mental health care

mental health: a report of the surgeon general (1999)

report of the surgeon generals conference on children’s mental health: a national action agenda (2000)

president’s new freedom commission on mental health (2003)

mental health parity and addiction equity act (2008)

patient protection and affordable care act (2010)

healthy people 2030: mental health an d mental disorders