GGRB28H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Invisible Disability, Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Psychotherapy
Document Summary
Sense of well-being, quality of life, capacity to pursue goals, acquire skills and education to grow. Good coping skills, healthy physical and social environments. Similar to the who definition of health- overall wellbeing, holistic concept. Recognized, medically diagnosed illness that has effects on cognitive, affective and relational abilities. No one is treated the same, have the same experience. Diagnosed, defined and treated in a certain way. Badly treated in asylums when they existed, experimented on. Deinstitutionalization: 80s, end of the welfare state (rise of neoliberalism), can no longer afford these public hospitals (they have to run on their own) Pushing patients back into the community to be productive members of society. Not done well: people would keep cycling back into the hospitals, 1970s: patient liberation movement: giving control back to the patients= giving back control to the patient. Can be acute, others will be chronic (lifetime of dealing with mental illness) Survived the asylum system, the mistreatment of it.
