HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture 2: HLTHAGE 1CC3_Week 2

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Hlthage icc3: introduction to mental health and illness. Dominates our way of thinking about mental illness. Disease, like any other causing malfunctions in the . Assumes a kind of specificity with its own underlying cause. ; like each mental disorder, in some way, is its own disease. Each one of these mental disorders/illnesses in effect has its own specific cause, and because of that, there is a particular course; cure; treatment. Variety of views regarding how mental illness are caused. Many believe this model is popular due to it limiting who oughts to take care of. Prescription drugs that are indicated to treat mental illnesses. When we diagnosis people; we do not scan their brains/do not look at the organs mental illness. Also focuses on individual, but takes into consideration mental/psychic processes, believing that mental disorder arises from internal mental processes that reflect the interaction of the individual with their environment.