CRMN 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Mental Health Association, Mental Health Professional, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Slide 2: health canada defines mental disorder as alternations in thinking, mood or behaviour associated with significant distress and impaired functioning and interferes with daily life. Slide 3: dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) outlines the thoughts/moods/behaviours under certain circumstances and is used by mental health professionals. Slide 4: 20% of canadians have some form of mental illness and about 80% of canadians know someone with a mental illness. Slide 5: 25% of population will suffer with mental illness at some point. Slide 6: variety of lenses to look at mental illness: gender, socioeconomic status and age. Slide 7: gender overall men and women have similar rates of mental illness; this varies by type. Men substance abuse disorder, anti-social personality disorder. Slide 8: research shows common mental disorders are more prevalent in women throughout the world. These include: sociocultural explanation, life stressors/negative events, low income/inequality, low/subordinate social status, family burden and victimization by violence.
