DST 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Medical Model, Mental Disorder

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

Document Summary

Medical model positioned as the only valid model, not true. Deficit, dysfunction, illness/health, pathology, labels, within the individual. Something wrong with people, or people lacking something (e. g. no coping skills, no. In any field, infused across cultures ability to function), madness is deficit. Dysfunction: something not working properly, therefore madness needs to be fixed. Metaphor of illness: shapes notion that madness is the same as any health thing, therefore many resources put into diagnosis and testing. Labeling: comfortable and familiar with mental illness (mi) labels. Not static, changes, shaped around certain bodies, communities, values, norms. In the individual: madness as problem situated in single body, therefore people need to be changed/fixed/rehabilitated. Ability to identify common signs of mental disorder (md) Mhl is concept, process through which medical model becomes dominant discourse. So dominant, it"s misunderstood as truth, end up thinking there can be no other ways of understanding. Intention vs impact of relying solely on bio-based model.