Mental illness is a very serious that is to be cured and also to be prevented. Mental illness has many adverse like killing oneself for no cause or threatening other people by their behavior. Some people are diagnosed as outpatients in less severe cases but some require hospitalization to prevent the individual and their care takes also from the harm.
In this inpatient treatment patients are encouraged to take decision in the treatment they are giving to them and also participate in the social activities in the ward. They are allowed to use the hospital premises and grounds. They are also encouraged to interact with the other patients that are beneficial to the therapeutic treatment.
Conducting social-learning programs like learning token economics for more social behavior is one of the treatments for mental illness. In recent days deinstitutionalization is being practiced to make the inpatients feel positive that they are not confined to the mental hospital.