Episode 3: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum, available: www.pbs.org/video/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-asylum-mbvisj/

Locate and read an academic research article or an academic review article on some issue presented in the episode, or an issue that is related to the episode in some way. Example issues include: solitary confinement & mental illness, mental illness treatment, recidivism & mental illness, women & mental illness, racism & mental illness. Trying to find an academic article (i.e., published in a scientific journal) that is particularly interesting to you by using PsycInfo or GoogleScholar. (a) Summarize the issue that is addressed in the article you read. (b) Present the core findings of the study or of the studies reviewed by the article. (c) Describe what the article's author(s) suggest should be done about the issue.