treatment of the mentally retarded in the 1920's?
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Services for people with a mental illness have been provided on the Rozelle Hospital site since 1876.    Rozelle Hospital was formed in 1976 from the amalgamation of Callan Park Hospital and the Broughton Hall Psychiatric Clinic. \nThe History of Rozelle Hospital is in tandem with the historical, social and political context of the mentally ill of a new colony and the progressive maturity of a nation. The progressive changes between 1870 and the present day evidence this maturity as social attitudes gradually changed towards the care and treatment of the mentally ill.\n\nIn the early days of the colony the mentally ill were incarcerated in gaols or convict hospitals as no distinction was made between deviancy and illness. As time progressed in the colony an attitudinal change occurred and there was a determined effort to provide decent conditions and treatment for the mentally ill. The administrative policy of the day saw the need for purpose built lunatic asylums in order for the people to be treated, at the very least, humanely as distinct from convicts and social deviants.  \n\nThe State Government purchased the site, then known as “Callan Estates” in 1873 with the express purpose of building a large psychiatric hospital to ease the severe overcrowding at the Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital. The proposal was met with some opposition from the local residents as the land, some 100 acres in area, had originally been advertised for sale as a residential subdivision.\n\nIn 1876, Garry Owen House, the original homestead on the site was used to accommodate the first patients at the new hospital. This building is now the NSW Writer’s Centre. \n\nThe fine group of sandstone buildings on the site was officially opened in 1884. These buildings, known as the ‘Kirkbride Block’ were named after the eminent American, Dr William Kirkbride who was renowned for his pioneering work on progressive mental health care. The buildings were originally designed to accommodate 666 patients however, by 1890 the hospital was seriously overcrowded with a total of 1078 patients. A further group of buildings were built around the turn of the century close to the Kirkbride buildings to ease the overcrowding problem.\n\nThe hospital grew in stature, and in 1900 the hospital was ranked as one of the finest institutions in the Commonwealth for the housing and treatment of persons suffering from mental disorders.\n\nFollowing the end of the First World War, a further six wards were built on the lower part of the site near the foreshore to accommodate war veterans with mental disorders.\n\nBy 1955, severe overcrowding and poor building stock was again an issue and in 1961, around the time of the Royal Commission into Callan Park, there were some 1,750 patients in residence.\n\nIn 1915, the Langdon family placed their 24 acre estate known as, Broughton Hall at the disposal of the Commonwealth Government to accommodate wounded soldiers and those suffering “shell-shock” from the First World War.\n\nWith the building of the war veteran’s accommodation at Callan Park, these functions were transferred to Callan Park in 1920 and Broughton Hall became a psychiatric clinic for people seeking mental health services but who were not certified under the Mental Health Act. The clinic provided accommodation for around 100 patients in addition to running a large outpatient clinic.                                        \n\nA number of new buildings were built on the site during the early 1920’s and a day hospital and teaching complex was completed in the early 1960’s.\n\nAs a result of the 1961 Royal Commission’s enquiry into certain matters affecting the hospital additional wards were built on the site and the high brick fences around the site were removed in an attempt to ‘de-institutionalise’ the hospital.\n\nIn 1976 Callan Park amalgamated with Broughton Hall to form Rozelle Hospital. Rozelle Hospital has continued its services through the inter
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Where will it end? Start with the babies with the most severe disabilities, then those with lesser disabilities, keep going until we achieve a master race of sameness.\n\nI doubt there is any going back. It will be done in the name of saving money, but let’s be honest. Many in modern societies simply do not want the inconvenience, the bother of dealing with anybody different, anybody who may need a little extra care. \n\nIf the churches won’t stand up for the most vulnerable among us, who will? \n\nVery sad.
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The case of the Scottsboro boys is an excellent study of justice in the 1930s. Here is a good site on it:\n\nhttp://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
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I think the 1950s were pretty much still a snakepit mentality. The advent of phenoziathines in th 50s gave rise to a mentality of remission/recovery. by the mid 60s a great deal of attitude change and treatment innovations resulted in a much better attitude towards the mentally ill. In the 70s, it was considered acceptable, therauputic, even fashionable, to invite the patients into the lives of staff members. Psychiatrists were as guilty as anyone else; bringing Paranoid Schizophrenics home to meet thier families including thier children! Then a dating club mentality formed and staff and patients routinely dated, and many married each other. I have nothing against the latter. Seems natural to me, as both staff and patient learn a lot about each other in a short period of time, and in a tense environment. Liability became a major issue, and that is why such relationships are frowned upon. You could get fired. But if you approach management and talk about love, accomodations like transferring the staff member to another area are sometimes made. The last 25 years has seen a startling development, mental health facilities and treatment centers are flooded with patients/residents/clients, who work in a mental health setting themself, and know the system has evolved into a vacation. After all, there's movie night, bowling day, vending machines, well stocked kitchens on the unit that patients can access 24/7. There's scattergories, charades, videogames, and passes - to name but a few of the amnenities. What has not changed is the storage and maintenence mentality seen in state hospitals, and selected VA medical facilities that are NOT real hospitals. Most VA hospitals are the most high tech clinics in the world, and always on the cutting edge of advancements in everything, but some are hidden in rural areas where the sickest of the sick get less treatment than anyone else. Since the mid 80s, an increasing number of thieves, sex-offenders, and people on power trips have found a cozy niche working in mental health facilities.  I hope this helps some.
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"Penry held that the applicaiton of the death penalty to persons who are metnally retarded but not legally insane does not violate the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishments."\n\nThis decision was later overturned by Atkins v. Virginia (2002), which ruled that "Executions of mentally retarded criminals are 'cruel and unusual punnishments' prohibited by the Eighth Amendment."
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I doubt it. Most countries are less tolerant of special needs kids than the United States, and even in the US there are lots of court cases attempting to define who should and who should not be allowed into an inclusion setting.
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Mental retardation (also called mental handicap and, as defined by the UK Mental Health Act 1983, mental impairment and severe mental impairment) is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills ("milestones") during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as an adult. One common criterion for diagnosis of mental retardation is a tested intelligence quotient (IQ) of 70 or below.\n\nPeople with mental retardation are people who are usually described as having developmental disabilities.
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I have a son with mental retardation. (this is a more correct way of describing him rather than "he is mentally retarded").\n\nThrough his school years, he had a few classes with "normal" school kids involved.  These became good friends over the years.  Our school system had special activities which included both "normal" and "disabled" kids in the same activity.  These included a Circle of Friends program (movies, bowling, parties, etc.), Unified Sports (part of special olympics where teams are mixed), etc.\n\nWhy don't you check with your school or community and see what's around?  Check with Special Olympics in your community and see if you and he/her can get involved together.\n\nSet an example for others by being first to spend time with him/her.
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I don't think they ever give ECT to children. It's not cruel and inhumane like portrayed in old movies. Today people are put to sleep and given muscle relaxants. They don't feel it. Because of the stigma and improvements in drug therapy it's not used very often today. But apparently it's very effective for extreme or psychotic depression, intractable mania and catatonic schizophrenia when these disorders haven't responded to drugs.
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Sometime in the 20th century
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http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture16a.html\n\ntry typing your question into google.
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u can donate to Tammana organization( for mentally retarded)\nAction for autism sarita vihar\nAli yavar jung Lazpat nagar & many you can find
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Have you read The Great Gatsby? Jay Gatsby (the character) would be great for that.   1920's and dealt with all the culture of the decade.\nOr choose another literature character from an era... like Catcher in the Rye, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Jane Austen,...
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ooohhh, cant list exact source but i believe if you look up the  IDEA law on that was created in the 1970s after the civil rights movement, it may give you a clue.  do you mean private preschool for sped, or inclusive?  because these answers will be different.  it wasnt until the civil rights movement that disable kids were even thought to have rights of their own to an equal education so my guess is that most of these kids were institutionalized.  but again, look up the IDEA and the history of special ed.  or the history of preschool sped.  good luck!
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The social or mental hygiene movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was an attempt by Progressive-era reformers to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use of scientific research methods and modern media techniques.\n\nMany reformers, such as Dr Marie Stopes, were also exponents of eugenics. Inspired by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, they argued for the sterilisation of certain groups, even racial groups, in society. This link between racial hygiene and social hygiene can be seen in Australia, where the Racial Hygiene Association of New South Wales is now named The Family Planning Association.\n\nSocial hygiene as a profession grew alongside social work and other public health movements of the era. Social hygienists emphasized sexual continence and strict self-discipline as a solution to societal ills, tracing prostitution, drug use and illegitimacy to rapid urbanization.\n\n\n\nAllied and Complementary MedicineTM is a unique database covering the fields of complementary or alternative medicine and allied health
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Mental retardation is not judged in the way you suggest.  If it were, one would wonder about the majority of questions and answers on this site.  Additionally, to qualify as  "legally retarded" one would have to have an IQ below 70 and/or be in the bottom 2.5 percent of the population.  I don't know if you have ever flown a high-performance aircraft before, but I can tell you that a retarded person cannot do this.  GW has actually done this, despite what you might want to say about him missing Air National Guard drills, he had to pass through flight school.\n\n\nI also don't think that Phillips Academy, Yale or Harvard have ever graduated anyone with an IQ below 70, even though they may have accepted folks with less than average intelligence at times in exchange for nice endowments.  Please, it is such an easy target to pick on GW.  Show a little originality to vent your spleen!
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So many things happened in the 20th century!\n\nTechnology boomed: If you don't have a cell phone, TV, or computer, you're seen as primitive.\n\nCivil Rights were established:  Women are much more independent now and have more freedoms.  Same with minority groups.\n\nGo with history.  Whatever historical event was important, there are social changes to follow.