SOWK 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anti-Psychiatry, Burstow, Systems Theory
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Systematic discrimination: anti-psychiatry de-centre focus on pathology; socialize, de-medicalize psychiatry, mental health care, e. g. same over emphasis on fixed identity (see healy, 2015, e. g. If an individual is not medicalized, than they will also be unable to get the services that they need, resulting in their opportunities being minimized. First we have to figure out the structure, before de-medicalizing it: mental health is more of a structural issue, parma industries, any type of systemic change, the focus is more on fixing the individual. Code of ethics: what is ethics, moral philosophical notion, deontological absolute truth/moral, teleological subject to considerations of relative harms & merits. Resolutions: consult the code *helpline , seek supervision, stay connected, learn relevant policies/laws (state + organizational, consult literature; ethicist on site, process/reflect what you have learned, trust your gut feeling, personal values. Contradictions in ethics: push the boundaries of the code, raise questions & follow through, harjeet badwall (2013).
