SOCIOL 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Malingering
10 Dec 2018
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Learning opportunities: chance to practice skills, challenges. "typical overdose" - in their minds, is that it"s going to be a women and she"s going to get an overdose to seek attention (seek sympathy) Families of alcoholics: 7 steps families go through. You start covering for them: making sure they don"t reveal themselves to the world that they are an alcoholic, partners of those with mental illness, battered women and their partners. Family and friends of those who have experienced the murder of a relative. Interested in victims: cousin has been murdered - traumatized whole family. Isolating (all about protecting yourself in protecting yourself from the crazy: avoiding. Ignoring or not taking seriously: manipulating (strategies in controlling the person you"re interacting with - goal is to keep them functioning as normally as possible, humoring. You come up with a different way in approaching them)
