What guidelines are exists for treatment of mental problems?

[lcbond007]

Hello friends,
I have heard that mental health treatment is highly unregulated. Cruel practices such as preparative therapy and electric shock treatment are practiced on patients without evidence to back up their safety and effectiveness. What guidelines exist for mental health treatment? What is allowed, and what is not?

Thank you!


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[james00]

A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern associated with distress or disability that occurs in an individual and is not a part of normal development or culture. The recognition and understanding of mental health conditions has changed over time and across cultures, and there are still variations in the definition, assessment, and classification of mental disorders, although standard guideline criteria are widely accepted.Over a third of people in most countries report meeting criteria for the major categories at some point in their life. The causes are often explained in terms of a diathesis-stress model and biopsychosocial model. Services are based in psychiatric hospitals or in the community. Diagnoses are made by psychiatrists or clinical psychologists using various methods, often relying on observation and questioning in interviews. Treatments are provided by various mental health professionals.

[macx]

This first animal and ignorant conscience still exists inside you and inside everyone, without having evolved, and it lives constantly trying to destroy your human conscience through craziness, in order to dominate you.This means that you live constantly threatened by craziness, and by depression, absurd tendencies and suicidal thoughts, even if you feel that you are a normal human being and there is no possibility that you may become crazy some day.