> You'd want to have some kind of public awareness campaign so people (including potential patients) can see that they're not the asylums of years past. Play up the "spend the day playing checkers in the day room and getting better" part, play down the part where they don't get to leave until the nice people running the place decide enough progress has been made.
As long as the "don't get to leave" part remains true your "public awareness campaign" sounds a lot like propaganda to me. This sort of thing is why people don't trust the system. You need to be up front about the restrictions, and persuade people (especially the prospective patients) that it's worthwhile anyway.
As long as the "don't get to leave" part remains true your "public awareness campaign" sounds a lot like propaganda to me. This sort of thing is why people don't trust the system. You need to be up front about the restrictions, and persuade people (especially the prospective patients) that it's worthwhile anyway.