Physical Abuse and Burden of Care on Families of the Mentally Ill
As the proportion of patients with serious mental illness who are cared for at home increases due to hospital cost-containment pressures, so does the burden on these patients' families. This Australian study examined the prevalence of abuse experienced by family or other nonprofessional caregivers of …
The existence of a treatment-custody conflict in people changing institutions that derives from the need of administrators o f these facilities to maintain organizational stability and control her caused correctional officers to stress the use of authority over treatment concerns. The focus here is the extent that custodial responsibilities (use of authority to gain inmate compliance) causes ambiguous and conflicting role definitions for correctional officers.