SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Risk Society, Absenteeism, Psychopharmacology
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Question of day: identify and explain the main social implications associated with mental health stigma. How are people with mental illness viewed by the general public: how has mental health treatment evolved over time, why is deinstitutionalization seen as a failed social policy. Identify and explain the main consequences that have occurred because of deinstitutionalization. They are not effective other than education: identify and explain the main critiques launched against psychiatry"s ability to diagnose mental illness. Mental disorders: alterations in thinking, mood or behaviour associated with significant distress and impaired functioning health canada definition. The experience of the disorder & the social environment. Diagnosed on a set of criteria based on dsm. Is a psychological, biological, or behavioural dysfunction that interferes with daily life. Dsm-iv criteria for major depressive disorder (mdd: specific symptoms, at least 5 of these 9. Canada: 20% of adults have a mental disorder, 80% of adults know someone with a mental disorder.
