DST 500 Final: Drawing from both course content and readings

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jijian Voronka

Document Summary

Drawing from both course content and readings, give four examples of psychiatric interventions that speak to how mad people experience oppressions by using an intersectional framework (e. g. , race, gender, class, ability). The collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their color, culture, or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behavior which amount to discrimination through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness, and racist stereotyping which disadvantages minority ethnic people. *brainstorm ways in which individual and institutional racisms work* Fernando notes that 2 main issues in current mental health practice are: 1) the overrepresentation of blacks being diagnosed as schizophrenic; 2) the over-representation of blacks being compulsorily detained and medicated. We must take on board a critical view of the basic model of. The medical framework takes on a narrow view of what illness" means. Vivid account of the mental breakdown of a young mother.