"Seeking Asylum: What a Detroit Psychiatry Residency Taught Me About the Cost of Deinstitutionalization and the Failures of the Community Health Model"
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Date:
May 13, 2020
Time:
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Location:
Zoom
Category:
Grand Rounds
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences
CHAIRMAN'S GRAND ROUNDS
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Time: 1-2pm
Venue: Zoom
SPEAKER:
Dorothy Bourdet, M.D.
Resident
General Psychiatry Residency Program
Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Program
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Discussant: Richard Balon, M.D.
TOPIC:
"Seeking Asylum: What a Detroit Psychiatry Residency Taught Me About the Cost of
Deinstitutionalization and the Failures of the Community Health Model"
Objectives:
- Provide a brief history of mental health treatment in the United States with a focus on state psychiatric facilities.
- Outline precipitants and causes of deinstitutionalization and forces that led to the development of the current community mental health care model.
- Identify systemic flaws in the community mental health care model that have led to inadequate care for the mentally ill in our communities.
