SYO 4400 Chapter 9: Mental Health

• School: UCF
• Department: Sociology--Social Organization
• Course: SYO 4400
• Professor: Joanna Eisele

Document Summary

Throughout time mental health has been regarded with suspicion and fear within society. Mental health/ illness are framed by society this affects the lives of people with mental health problems more than the symptoms of their condition. Stigma how people with certain traits and characteristics are made to feel unwelcome and excluded by society. Two explanations both are needed to somewhat describe mental illness; they cannot stand alone: biological explanations . Focus on faulty genes or imbalances in the brain. Reinforced by pharmaceutical interventions if an illness can be treated by medications then it must have a biological basis: social explanations two categories: Social causation- how the various inequalities in society produce toxic levels of stress for some people. Therefore people are tipped into mental illness. Social constructionist- mental illness does not exist as a fact" or as real" and it has absolutely no organic bases.