April 4 - Mental Health and Illness II

Question 1

Treatment and Medicalization can be seen as a form of

Answer 1

Social control

Question 2

What are madhouses?

Answer 2

rather than treatment of mentally ill, containment centers for people that are mentally ill

Question 3

What are asylums?

Answer 3

Places that actually help with mental illness

Question 4

What is the deviance dance?

Answer 4

Resisting Stigmatization
resisting inadequate care
resisting medicalization

Question 5

What are forms of resisting stigmatization?

Answer 5

dividing social world - carefully managing who knows about your mental illness and who doesn’t
deflecting - looking at depiction of mental illness and not identifying with it
challenging - confronting any mean comments, challenging other with stigma

Question 6

What is resisting medicalization? give example

Answer 6

do children actually have adhd or is it over diagnosed?
are we blaming kids for a medical issue when it is a social issue?

Question 7

What was the idea behind Rosenhan’s experiment?

Answer 7

can we distinguish between insane and sane

Question 8

What was the conclusion of Rosenhan’s experiment?

Answer 8

Factors outside of the individual influence diagnosis
psychiatric diagnosis is precarious