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People with mental problems were seen as crazy. They were often beaten and mistreated for entertainment.
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In Europe, they used asylums to chain people up to the wall who they deemed were mentally ill.
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People in the 1700s started recognizing that the treatment for the mentally ill people was wrong, they then started a reform. Phillippe Pinel who was a physician at the time said chains and shackles could not be used on these people and offered them a room at the hospital in Paris.
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Benjamin Rush makes it known that children with emotional issues should have better treatment.
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German scientists Emil Kriplein studied mental illness at a deeper level and made known a difference between manic depressive syndrome and schizophrenia
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Famous psychologists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung started developing treatments and further researching mental illness
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This allowed for a somewhat safe place for the emotionally distrubed
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President Harry Truman signed the mental health which granted more money and resources into researching mental health issues and treatments
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Nicholas Hobbs started addressing the needs of emotionally disturbed children at schools. His work was later published which contains a model of the 12 principals of the emotionally distrubed.
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The Council for Children with Behavior Disorders was formed
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The court ruled that exclusion of children with disabilities from the public education is unconstitutional.
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