What factors need to be considered when developing interventions with people with mental health?
1. The person’s prior history. IMO involuntary hospitalization as an intervention should be much easier for a person who has a long documented history of mental illness than a person who has never been treated for mental illness. 2. The presence of dependent children or other helpless people in the household of the person with mental illness. IMO that ought to be one of the top considerations for an involuntary hospitalization. Psychiatrists can futz around and try outpatient treatments for a person who isn’t the caregiver for small children, but if there are small children in the household, and particularly if the person with the mental illness is the caregiver for the children, aggressive action to hospitalize the person should be taken. Safety of family members has to have the highest priority. 3. Person’s past history of psychiatric symptoms, if known. If a person has a known history of suicide attempts, of acts of violence against other people, or self-destructive behavior, that s
