Controversies In Psychiatry

Question 1

Define stigma

Answer 1

Social construction that devalues people due to a distinguishing characteristic or mark

Question 2

Define discrimination

Answer 2

Actual behaviour towards a group. It involves excluding or restriction members of one group from opportunities available to another group

Question 3

Approaches to compact stigma

Answer 3

Good medication management,
CBT approach to overcome stigma,
Consider own attitudes and awareness,
Us and them attitudes,
Celebrity affect

Question 4

Ares of controversy relating to psychiatry

Answer 4

Treatment without consent,
Rising rates of antidepressant prescription,
Security,
Detention,
Diagnosis, 
Social control

Question 5

Examples of two anti psychiatry movements?

Answer 5

R.D. Laing- schizophrenia is a theory not a fact

Thomas Szasz- myth of mental health

Question 6

Controversial issues regarding ECT in media but not true

Answer 6

Suggestion of secret 
Not efficient evidence,
Memory loss,
Like an addiction,
3-4 weeks get worse