{"id":2442,"date":"2021-10-04T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/?p=2442"},"modified":"2021-10-04T08:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T12:29:01","slug":"care-and-custody-past-responses-to-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libraryprograms\/2021\/10\/04\/care-and-custody-past-responses-to-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Guest post by Courtney Eger, Learning and Engagement Librarian <\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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Design proposal of the Sheppard Asylum near Baltimore, MD by Calvert Vaux, 1860
Image courtesy of the National Library of Medicine<\/p><\/div>\r\n

The week of October 3rd is Mental Illness Awareness Week, the perfect time for <\/span>Ginsburg Health Sciences Library\u2019s<\/span><\/a> online programming around <\/span>Care and Custody: Past Responses to Mental Health<\/b>. In the United States, it was once common practice to commit people to asylums if they had a mental health condition and their family was unable to care for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Over time, the horrors of institutional care were revealed (overcrowding, abuse, etc.).\u00a0 Asylums were closed in a process called deinstitutionalization, creating issues of care in the community. New problems arose from this change, including an increase in incarceration for those with mental health conditions and more attention to community-based treatment programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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George Elder in the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin<\/em>, photograph by Nelson Martinez, 1971
Image courtesy of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University<\/p><\/div>\r\n

You can read more about this history at the <\/span>National Library of Medicine (NLM) online exhibit website<\/span><\/a>. There is even a Temple connection in the NLM\u2019s exhibit: this photo of George Elder<\/a> from the Libraries\u2019 <\/span>Special Collections Research Center<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u200bThe Ginsburg Health Sciences Library invites you to attend a series of online events and workshops related to this topic from October 4\u20137, 2021. Our lineup includes:<\/span><\/p>\r\n