DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion, Food Security
15 Jan 2018
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Ability to identify common signs of mental disorders. Shared beliefs of causes of mental disorders. The process through which the medical model has become the one truth in how we understand experiences of madness. Mental health literacy does not acknowledge or allow to address progressive social justice. Learning how to efficiently and actively police and control experiences of psychological and behavioural difference. Anti-stigma campaigns aim to allow a space for people to speak openly. Actually targets those who are different and categorizes them. Is concerned with experiences of oppression, discrimination and barriers. Relational, identity-based and anti-oppression approaches to questions of mental/psychological/behavioural difference. Articulated against an analytic of mental illness and the medical model. Critical alternative to the words mental illness or mental disorder . Acknowledges varied experiences of madness and distress and the psychiatric system. Acknowledgement of the work and struggle of the mad movement and its history.
