Social factors relating to mental health issues Flashcards
Developed the biopsychosocial model of mental illness
Engel
The argument that mental illness causes a patient to have a downward shift in their social class, rather than low social class increasing the risk of poor mental health
Social drift hypothesis
City which was studied leading to the development of the social drift hypothesis
Chicago
Rutter’s risk factors in the family environment that correlated with childhood mental disturbances
Severe marital discord Low social class Large family size Maternal mental health disorder Paternal criminality Foster placement
Study which looked at groups of White American and Native American children grouped into ‘poor’, ‘never poor’ and ‘ex poor’ and looked at their psychiatric epidemiology
Great Smoky Mountains study
Findings of the Great Smoky Mountains study into paediatric psychiatric epidemiology
‘Poor’ children had more psychiatric issues than ‘never poor’ children
Prior to their income increasing ‘ex poor’ children had more psychiatric issues than ‘never poor’ children
After their income increased ‘ex poor’ children’s level of psychiatric illness fell to the levels of ‘never poor’ children
Label for any deviant behaviour before the perpetrator is identified as a ‘deviant’
Primary deviance
Label for any deviant behaviour after the perpetrator has been identified as a ‘deviant’ by their repeated episodes of deviant behaviuor
Secondary deviance
Deviant behaviour involving breaking a written law
Formal deviance
Deviant behaviour involving breaking unspoken social rules or conventions
Informal deviance
Sociologist who proposed social causes for suicide
Durkheim
Type of suicide categorised by Durkheim where an individual within a tightly knit group is willing to die in that group’s defence
Altruistic suicide
Type of suicide categorised by Durkheim where an individual is too detached from others in their community and had little social support or guidance
Egoistic suicide
Type of suicide categorised by Durkheim where an individual feels detached from society because the society has broken down e.g. in times of rapid change
Anomic suicide
Type of suicide categorised by Durkheim where an individual seeks escape from a tightly knit group but is unable to escape other than by killing themselves
Fatalistic suicide
