SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Health Belief Model, Erving Goffman, Anti-Psychiatry
29 May 2016
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Require special training of the patient for rehabilitation. Require a long period of supervision, observation or care. Twelve percent of noninstitutionalized adults in the united states. Rates vary by class, gender, age, and ethnicity. Visibility, recognisability or perceptual salience of signs and symptoms. Availability of treatments resources, physical proximity, psychological and monetary costs of taking action. Minority group: any group considered inferior and subjected to unequal treatment and that develops sense of itself as object of discrimination: prejudice: unwarranted suspicion, dislike, or disdain due to group membership, stereotypes: oversimplications, discrimination: unequal treatment. Managing health care and treatment regiments: the health belief model. Mental illness is denied through subjective social judgments. Mental illness reflects a particular social setting as well as individual behaviour or biology. Persons labelled mentally ill may experience improvement regardless of treatment and treatment may not help. Medical treatment for mental illness sometimes can harm patients. Social stress theory: class based stress leads o mental disorder.
