Care in Crisis: Resisting Criminalization of Mental Health in Nursing
Description
This session is part of our Transformative Nursing: Deconstructing Punitive Healthcare education series. This session will describe the dynamics and practices that drive criminalization in healthcare, the impact of those practices on patients, families, and healthcare workers, and a practical set of strategies that individuals and teams can use to understand, respond to, and change these dynamics in their individual practice, their teams and health systems more broadly.
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Learning Objectives
Discuss the breadth of criminalization of distress in health systems
Understand the impact of criminalization from healthcare settings on patients, families, and communities
Assess their practice/health system for aspects of criminalization
Discuss practical strategies to resist criminalization in the moment
Describe multiple strategies to approach and discuss criminalization within institutions
Understand the negative physical, mental, emotional impacts that forced institutionalization has on patients
Describe alternative models of mental health provision and describe the challenges and benefit of these models
Course Content
| Care in Crisis Webinar | Chapter | ||
| Post Course Survey | Chapter |