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Best Hospitals For Mental Health Treatment

Published at 04/03/2012 01:03:53

Introduction

Mental health hospitals are those that deal with mental health problems. These hospitals offer remedies to the most acute mental disorders. The mental hospitals have several categorizations. Some are those that treat mental disorders of low risk, whereas there are some hospitals that cure serious cases of mental ailments. These hospitals are popularly called to be psychiatric hospitals. There are even some mental health hospitals that arrange for the permanent stay of the severe patients and take care of them to support and bring them back to normal living.

Different kinds:

Mental health hospitals are of different kinds. The kinds are based on the type of the treatment that is being given to the mental patients.

  • The first kind deals with the stability of the patients suffering from any mental crisis. Mental crisis may indicate attempts to suicide, or being violent at times without any reason or being critical for any unnecessary reasons. These kind of mental health hospitals are good enough to bring back the patients to their normal life.
  • The second kind of hospitals is those that arrange for the treatment of the patients suffering from acute mental disorders. These hospitals ensure that the patients are discharged only after it is tested that the patient is mentally stable is capable of leading a normal life. These hospitals are called open units. But sometimes the entry and the exit of the hospitals are closed properly so as to guard the patients properly. Even sometimes, the patients may take overdoses of medicines thus leading to several problems. So these hospitals take care not to prescribe any medicines at home.

Others include:

  • The third kind of mental health hospitals are the medium-term hospitals. It helps the patients to undergo prolonged treatment and at the same time monitor that the type of medicines and the therapies being given to the patient is absolutely going on the right path. Accordingly the treatment is followed.
  • The fourth mental health hospitals deal with the problems regarding addiction to drugs and any other sedatives. The mental disorders of the patients in this hospital may also include the eating disorders, or the probability of killing own self or harming others badly. They are categorized as juvenile wards.
  • Other than this there are hospitals that give long term care to the patients suffering from severe mental illnesses.

The best hospitals

Among the best hospitals, few of the renowned hospitals are:

  • The Massachusetts general hospital that had ranked at the best level for taking care of the patients in the best manner possible for a long term of fifteen years.
  • The John Hopkins Hospital that served the compromised mental patients in the healthiest way amongst all the other hospitals located in Maryland, USA.
  • McLean hospital is the provider of treatment to the patients who are suffering from severe addictions of the alcoholic beverages, drugs, sedatives. They had also dealt with adolescent disorders and child disorders. Records are such that they have also tried to treat patients suffering from personality disorders and many other psychiatric diseases.

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