People who are going to be processed into a jail or prison need to mentally prepare themselves for what they are about to face. This means turning their mind into survival mood and be ready to fight at any given second. As they say in jail, “Stab or be stabbed.” It’s better to be caught with a shank than be caught dead without one. When the correctional officer walks you down the hall to your pod after intake buckle your chinstrap and get ready to enter a world many people have never seen. When the pod doors are opened to your new home it’s like hell on earth. The first 30 minutes of walking into the pod, …show more content…
This can cause a person to think a lot about their life and where it needs to go. As for myself, spending 40 days in solitary confinement made me think where my life needed to be. Being left all alone in freezing conditions and losing my sanity with each and every day made me realize I knew I didn’t want to spend my life here. It is known that severe restriction of environmental and social interaction has a profound effect on mental functioning. This issue has been a major concern for many groups of patients including patients in intensive care units, spinal patients immobilized by the need for prolonged traction, and patients with impairment of sensory problems such as eye-patched or hearing-impaired patients. This issue has also been a very significant concern in military situations such as polar and submarine expeditions as well as those in preparations for space …show more content…
In the traditional system of parallel substance abuse and mental health services few clients are able to access needed treatments for both disorders and the services are rarely tailored to address the common interactive elements of co-occurrence ( Polcin DL. 1992;23:30–37). Therefore, clinicians and researchers have developed a number of strategies that combine and integrate mental health and substance abuse interventions. Recent reviews have identified dozens of controlled studies examining a range of psychosocial interventions or pharmacological interventions ( Brunette MF. Mueser KT. Drake RE. 2004;23:471–481). Long-term residential treatment is the only established intervention for clients who do not respond to outpatient integrated treatments. As with group interventions, effective residential treatment programs vary considerably. The common elements of effective programs include flexible entry and discharge, integrated treatment for mental health and substance problems, a focus on employment and other aspects of rehabilitation, graduated approaches to lapses or relapses, and expected tenure of one year or more ( Brunette MB. Noordsy DL. Buckley P, et al.