Question: who worked to eliminate brutal conditions in mental institutions

title: Psychiatric hospital
text: A crisis stabilization unit is in effect an emergency room for psychiatry , frequently dealing with suicidal , violent , or otherwise critical individuals . Open units are psychiatric units that are not as secure as crisis stabilization units . Another type of psychiatric hospital is medium term , which provides care lasting several weeks . In the United Kingdom , both crisis admissions and medium term care is usually provided on acute admissions wards . Juvenile or adolescent wards are sections of psychiatric hospitals or psychiatric wards set aside for children or adolescents with mental illness . Long - term care facilities have the goal of treatment and rehabilitation back into society within a short time - frame ( two or three years ) . Another institution for the mentally ill is a community - based halfway house .