Health Sciences 3624A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paradigm Shift, Audiology
12 Apr 2020
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Hs 3624b - social determinants of mental health 02/05/2020. Lecture 7 - reframing how we understand mental illness & social determinants of. Has been happening for at least ten years - many have been shifting the paradigm since the. The pharmaceutical industry came together with other factors to set the stage for a biomedical paradigm. The first copy of the dsm iii was in 1988. Categories in research turned into the dsm. A rapidly growing group of clinician/scholars from around the world. The investment took funding out of institutional settings and into community settings. Mental health care does not have hardcore tangible evidence - there is a desire to prove certain assumptions. Provision of services is dependent on knowledge. Various voices are contributing to this dialogue. It is not a fluent process - many people have things at stake and are clinging to their agendas, while others want to move forward.
