| |1950 |Federal responsibility for the sick and poor is established. Many medications were | | |available during the period which included the treatment of infections, glaucoma, and | | |arthritis. New vaccines were also available to help in the prevention of childhood | | |diseases such as polio. | |1960 |President Lyndon Johnson signed the Social Security Act, which established both | | |Medicare and Medicaid. Then Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is | | |responsible for the coordination of Medicare and Medicaid in the United States.
Community Mental Health Centers Acts (1963) A national mental health program to assist in the inauguration of a wholly new emphasis and approach to care for the mentally ill Focus on comprehensive community care We need a new type of health care facility; one which will return mental health care to the mainstream of American medicine, and at the same time upgrade mental health services I recommend, therefore, that the Congress: Authorize grants to the states for the construction of comprehensive community mental health centers Authorize short term project grants for the initial staffing costs (Cutler, Bevilacqua, & McFarland, 2003). The Economic Opportunity Act (1964) The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 served as the initial step in the war on poverty aspect of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. The objective was to help the
Anh Duy Doan ENG111 – 007 01-27-2011 Something the Lord Made “Something the Lord Made” is a movie that is based on a true story of two medical pioneers – white surgeon Dr. Blalock and his black assistant Vivien Thomas. They worked and teamed together in the 1940s to find procedure to save children suffering from the heart defect. The movie has set off a talent of Vivien who has a great interest in medicine and creates a new technique in heart surgery. The other reality in the movie is the partnership between a white man and a black man while racial discrimination is extremely serious. Vivien is a man who does not have much education except high school diploma.
We are told what the characters were doing just a few minutes before the bombing actually took place on that fateful day of August 6, 1945. The book describes Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, who at the time was a young, twenty-five year old, hardworking surgeon at the Red Cross in Hiroshima. Early on in the story, Hersey explains Dr. Sasaki’s selflessness by explaining how he risks penalties by treating sick patients in the suburbs without a permit. It seems as those these acts, may be the reasons why fate had him take a streetcar instead of the train that morning and for that one safe step away from an open window. These two factors presented him with being the only doctor in the hospital who was not injured, which by far is a complete blessing.
Clinical psychology is defined as “the study of individuals, by observation or experimentation, with the intention of promoting change” (Compas & Gotlib, 2001). While the field of clinical psychology continued to expand, psychiatrists remained working with patients noted to have severe mental illnesses. During World War I, the two intelligence tests Army Alpha (verbal skills) and Army Beta (nonverbal skills) were introduced, making assessment the key focus of clinical psychology (Compas & Gotlib, 2001). The America Association of Clinical Psychology was established in 1917; following the creation of The American Association of Applied Psychology (APA) in 1930. The APA
Introduced in an attempt to improve services for people with a mental disorder, the CPA was hailed by the government as a main part of its mental health policy. The principle of the CPA is to improve the conveyance of care for people with severe mental illness. It aims to identify who these people are and what their needs are. Services and resources can then be prioritise and allocated. It was introduced in April 1991 and quickly became one of the main features in the involvement, intervention and treatment of people with a mental disorder.
The ad-hoc legislation between 1803 and 1930 was passed severally for compensation after a disaster. For example, after the Great Wall fire incident in 1835, the New York City merchants received waive on tariff duties. After Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the congress passed legislation to compensate those injured at John T. Ford’s theatre. In 1932, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the Reconstruction Finance Corporation after the Great Depression in 1929. The RFC work was to lend money to institutions and banks for stimulation of economic activities.
The plan's mental health measures include expanding the mental healthcare workforce, implementing a program to help identify mental illness early in children, conducting federal research into gun violence, offering guidance to clinicians about reporting threats of violence in patients and clarifying long-anticipated federal regulations for a mental healthcare coverage parity law that has been on the books for years. The plan also laid out a new mental healthcare initiative called Project AWARE, an acronym for Advancing Wellness and Resilience in Education, which is supposed to reach some 750,000 young people through programs that identify mental illness early and also refer those individuals for treatment. Project AWARE includes $15 million for Mental Health First Aid, a training program that would help teachers and others who interact with children to identify and respond to mental illness in children and adults and also urge both adolescents and families with these problems to get treatment. Another $40 million in this project would be used to help school districts work with mental health agencies and law enforcement officials in communities to make sure students with mental health issues receive services they need. The plan does address the shortage of mental health professionals, which was one of several recommendations from the Mental Health Liaison Group, an organization of behavioral health associations including the American Psychiatric Association, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems.
Following this in 1965 President Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into effect which also garnered more funding for special education (The History of Special Education in the United States, 2013). Special needs children’s rights have been insured with many different litigations and laws. An increase in research in regards to disabilities that affect children has been brought about because of the increased awareness and understanding of children with disabilities (Hardman, Drew,
According to Wikipedia, Mr. Eastman was an innovator, entrepreneur and a philanthropist showing concerns for fellow human beings, establishing schools in dentistry, medicine and music. Born in 1854 in New York, “he invented roll film…the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888. Due to a degenerative spinal problem… Eastman shot himself...in 1932.” Wikipedia. Eastman witnessed the death of both parents and sister due to medical issues. It’s noted he gave $100 million to charities and organizations such as in medical and educational arena.