Psychiatric malpractice as abuse of institutional power: mental health.

 

 Research question; Psychiatric malpractice as abuse of institutional power: mental health.

Method of conducting the study; Content analysis

I will be analyzing newspaper articles; newspapers are updated everyday and they will act as a good source of data for my topic of research since the information recorded in them will be very specific. I will also be examining court documents containing cases that relate to my topic of study mostly, I will examine the cases that have been presented in the past in order to prove that malpractices as a form of abuse of power has been there since time immemorial.  I will analyze scholarly journals on psychiatric malpractice as abuse of institutional power since they will have credible data on my area of study, and mostly because data found in scholarly articles has been generated from multiple sources thus the data is more detailed. I will also use recent articles posted online by reliable sources about abuse of power in institutions that results to malpractices in psychiatric institutions. Lastly, I will analyze text books that contain information concerning the area of study, text books are credible and their information is highly reliable since it is data that has been analyzed and approved.

Hypothesis; Psychiatric malpractices have been there since time immemorial, psychiatric institutions have abused their institutional power and under the disguise of offering mental health treatment, they have denied these patients their basic human rights, punished, cheated them and stripped them of their own free will which is one of the fundamental of human existence itself.   

An independent variable is one that cannot be manipulated or changed and a dependent variable is one that can be manipulated or changed. There are certain conditions that cannot change when it comes to addressing mental health and there are those that can be changed in order to avoid malpractices. The independent variable is the fact that these mentally ill patients have to be in these institutions and undergo various types of therapy and be given medication in order to ensure normalcy in society. These therapies and medication given to patients are the areas where the institutions abuse their power and they are the dependent variable since they can be manipulated and be made fit and patients friendly. If the therapies and medication given to these patients change there is a chance that institutional abuse that allows malpractice to take place in psychiatric institutions will have been dealt with.

Coding which is the process of identifying a passage or a text, or any other form of data such as images, searching and identifying concepts related to my area of study.  Codes will enable me to organize data collected so that I can be able to analyze them in a structured way. The first method of coding I will use is the concept driven coding, which can also be referred since mostly I will be looking into latent content, this method of coding involves looking through a source of data and look for concepts that relate to my area of study.

Data sheet.

Source	Author	year	Method of coding	Information
Online article	MindFreedom	2014	Concept driven coding	This article contains information of how psychiatric institutions have abused their power by disregarding the consent of these patients. They are put through painful therapeutic procedures without their consent