Lecture 7

Question 1

Mental Disorders

Answer 1

Alterations in thinking, mood, or behaviour, usually associated with significant distress and imparted functioning.

Question 2

Mental disorders affect the majority of Canadians. True or false?

Answer 2

True.

Question 3

__% of us have mental disorder.

Answer 3

20.

Question 4

Why is mental illness curious to sociologists?

Answer 4

Gender, socioeconomic status, and age all affect mental disorders.

Question 5

Which mental disorders are more common among women?

Answer 5

Depression and anxiety.

Question 6

Which mental disorders are more common among men?

Answer 6

Substance abuse, antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorders.

Question 7

Less than ___ the patients with depression are likely to be diagnosed with depression.

Answer 7

Half.

Question 8

What makes it difficult to study mental illness and gender?

Answer 8

Help-seeking amongst genders, also, stereotypes.

Question 9

Women are more likely to be diagnosed to be ___ than men, and men are more likely to be diagnosed with substance abuse.

Answer 9

Depressed.

Question 10

The lower the socioeconomic status, the ___ the rate of mental illness.

Answer 10

Higher.

Question 11

Social Causation Hypothesis

Answer 11

There are greater stressors and fewer resources for the lower classes, and this contributes to the development of mental disorders.

Question 12

Social Selection Hypothesis

Answer 12

People with mental disorders are more likely to slide into the lower classes due to impairments in daily functioning.

Question 13

Mental illness is most common with ___ and ___ ___.

Answer 13

Adolescents and young adults.

Question 14

Why does scholarship mostly focus on women’s issues?

Answer 14

Result of necessary attempt to make women’s experiences matter.

Question 15

What is the result of scholarship mostly focusing on women’s issues?

Answer 15

Stereotypically feminine disorders like depression and anxiety lead to men being omitted from discussion.

Question 16

What are 2 findings that show up across the board for mental health gender research?

Answer 16

• Men and women have equal rates of disorder overall.

- Men and women tend to experience different kinds of psychiatric illnesses?

Question 17

Girls and women have higher rates of ___ disorders (like depression and anxiety). Inward focus.

Answer 17

Internalizing.

Question 18

Boys and men are more likely to have ___ troubles. Outward directed. Aggressive behaviour, substance use, oppositional defiant disorder, ADD, and APD.

Answer 18

Externalizing.

Question 19

Why is it said that there is a silent epidemic for men who get depression?

Answer 19

• Clinicians are less likely to diagnose men with depression and anxiety.
• Less likely to be empathetic and less likely to rely on intimate partners.
• Masculinity is a problem in this regard.
• Men often hide psychological problems. Reluctant to discuss symptoms.

Question 20

___ have weaker social relationships, and their friendship circles are less diverse and smaller.

Answer 20

Men.

Question 21

What predisposes men to externalizing disorders?

Answer 21

• Unlikely to use mental health resources as they believe in the masculine “suck it up” narrative.
• Have weaker social relationships. Friendship circles are less diverse, smaller.
• Unlikely to confide in someone.

Question 22

Those with mental illness have lower levels of:

Answer 22

• Lower levels of educational attainment.
• Lower incomes.
• Low employment rates.

Question 23

Those with mental illness have higher rates of:

Answer 23

• Higher rates of physical illness.

- Greater family instability.

Question 24

Why is it that 1/3 of people with mental illnesses never get treated?

Answer 24

• Fear or stigmatization.

- Stigmatization contributes to lack of funding.

Question 25

Why might stereotypes be worse among mental health professionals?

Answer 25

They see people with mental illness when they are at their worst.

Question 26

How does the media have an impact on people’s perception of mental illness?

Answer 26

• Characters with mental health issues are portrayed negatively. Violent, or at-risk for engaging in violent outbursts.
• Media representations influence the public. Public’s perceptions of mental illness is associated with stereotypes.

Question 27

Self-Stigma

Answer 27

People stigmatize themselves. They are incurable.

Question 28

Medicalization in the 19th Century

Answer 28

People put in asylums, and re-trained to conform to society’s norms.

Question 29

Medicalization in the20th Century

Answer 29

It was more scientifically informed. Various medication. Insane asylums were transformed to psychiatric hospitals.

Question 30

Treatment of mental illness today:

Answer 30

We have combination of medical and psychosocial supports.

Question 31

Deinstitutionalization

Answer 31

• Under this process, people are treated in the community rather than within institutions.
• This is mostly good, but people have also fallen through the cracks, getting no treatment at all.

Question 32

Requirements for deinstitutionalization:

Answer 32

• Support of family network.
• Accepting community.
• Adequate community resources.
• Place to live in community.

Question 33

Hydraulic relationship between ___ ___ system and ___ ___ system.

Answer 33

Mental health, criminal justice.

Question 34

Reinstitutionalization

Answer 34

Finding middle ground between institutionalization and deinstitutionalization. We want to reduce the risk for individuals who have fallen through the cracks with deinstitutionalization.

Question 35

ADHD is over-diagnosed in ___ ___.

Answer 35

Male children.

Question 36

Bipolar disorder was previously viewed as an ___ condition.

Answer 36

Uncommon.

Question 37

Soft Bipolar Spectrum Disorder

Answer 37

• No full-blown symptoms, but something is going on with mood.
• You can move from depression to mania very quickly.

Question 38

Why is bipolar disorder romanticized?

Answer 38

Many people romanticize this disorder. Genius and creativity associated with mental illness.

Question 39

The genius in bipolar disorder is most obvious with:

Answer 39

Manic thinking. Combinatorial.

Question 40

Combinatorial

Answer 40

Ability to combine ideas or categories of thought in order to form new and original connections.

Question 41

How do people with bipolar disorder use humour?

Answer 41

Humour may protect against the development of hopelessness among people with bipolar disorder. Being creative and humorous are escapes.