Sociocultural Psychiatry Flashcards
What is the social classification in Britain?
Class 1: Professional, managerial Class 2: Intermediate Class 3: Skilled, manual, clerical Class 4: semi-skilled Class 5: unskilled Class 6: unemployed
Which psychiatric disorders are not as common in lower social classes?
Anorexia
Alcohol abuse
Bipolar
What is the Jarman Index?
Scoring system for level of social deprivation in a community.
Who created the concept ‘sick role’?
Talcott Parsons
What makes up the sick role?
Sick person is exempt from normal social roles.
Sick people are not responsible for their disease.
Sick person must try and get well.
Sick person must seek help and cooperate with care.
What is the difference between illness and sickness?
Illness: personal experience
Sickness: social consequences
Define impairment
Interference with structural or psychological functions
Define disability
Interference with activities of the whole person in relation of immediate environment.
Define handicap
Social disadvantage resulting from disability
What does the Transtheoretical Model (Prochaska and DiClemente) state?
How individuals can change illness-related behaviour:
- Consciousness raising (help them gather info)
- Choosing - increase awareness of alternatives
- Catharsis - emotional expression of problem behaviour
- Conditional stimuli
- Contingency control - positive reinforcement + self-appraisal
What is conditional stimuli in the Transtheoretical Model?
Stimulus control - avoidance of stimuli associated with problem behaviour
Counterconditioning - training a healthier response to stimuli.
What are the six stages of change under the Transtheoretical Model?
- Precontemplation
- Contemplation
- Preparation
- Action
- Maintenance
- Relapse
Who created Motivational Interviewing?
Miller & Rollnick, 1991
What is the libertarian principle in resource allocation?
Resources distributed according to market principle - patient as consumer, if they can pay then resources are available to them.
What does utilitarian principle suggest towards resource allocation?
Resources distributed according to maximum benefit to all
Which principle suggests resources should be distributed according to need?
Egalitarian
What does restorative principle suggest in terms of resource allocation?
Resources distributed with positive discrimination towards disadvantaged.
What are the schizophrenogenic family patterns according to Lidz?
Marital schism
Marital skew
What is marital schism?
Family is in disequilibrium due to repeated threats of parental separation. Parents downgrade roles of each other.
What is the double-bind relationship?
Bateson: superficial verbal communication contradicts behavioral and deeper communication amongst family. These mixed messages keep child in a double bind that increases risk of psychosis.
Who coined the term schizophenogenic mother?
Freida Fromm-Reichmann
What is the schizophenogenic mother?
Rejecting, impervious to feelings of others, rigid in moralism re sex and fear of intimacy.
Who created the concept of expressed emotions?
Brown & Rutter (1966)
What are the measures for expressed emotion concept?
Critical comments Positive remarks Emotional over involvement Hostility Emotional warmth
What is the Camberwell Family Interview?
Individuals of family interviewed + patient.
If one relative is classified as high expressed emotion, then whole family could be classified as such.
Who created the Life events and difficulties schedule?
Brown and Harris
What is the Life events and difficulties schedule?
Life events are graded according to their meaning for the individual.
What are some life event scales?
Social readjustment rating scale (Holmes and Rahe)
Adverse childhood events scale
Hassles & uplifts scale (Lazarus and Folkman)
Who suggest the social drift/social selection theory for MH problems?
Faris and Dunham
According to Rutter, which risk factors in family environment correlate with childhood MH problems?
Severe marital discord Low social class Large family size Maternal MH disorder Paternal criminality Foster placement
What is primary deviance?
General aberration from normality before person is identified as deviant.
What are the types of suicide according to Durkheim?
Altruistic
Egoistic
Fatalistic
Anomic
What is altruistic suicide?
Individual is overly attached to social norms and dies for society
What is egoistic suicide?
Excessive individualism but low social integration.
What is fatalistic suicide?
Society’s control on the individual is so strong that it interferes with moral values and personal goals.
What is anomic suicide?
Individual feels he has no guidance or regulations from society.
What are the vulnerability factors for depression according to Brown and Harris (1978)
Absence of close confiding relationship
Loss of mother before 11 years of age
Lack of employment outside home
3 or more children under 15 living at home.
What does the social defeat hypothesis state?
Long-term experiences of social disadvantage lead to sensitization of the dopamine system and increased baseline activity of this system. This increases the risk of schizophrenia.
What does the notion of prepsychotic segregation state?
Individuals who are psychosis prone find it hard to survive in countries of birth and therefore immigrate.
What are the stages of Goffman’s ‘moral career’
Betrayal funnel
Role stripping
Mortification
Privilege system
What is mortification in the moral career?
Series of assaults on the persons self-image. E.g. private activities are on public display, person must ask permission. Also called civil death
What are secondary adjustments according to Goffman?
Habitual arrangements used by patients who act as if their concern is to escape the institution
Who used the term institutional neurosis?
Russel Barton - 1976
What is institutional neurosis?
Characterized by apathy, lack of initiative and interest and submissiveness.
What is clinical poverty?
When social poverty and lack of stimulation are related to the severity of blunted affect, poverty of speech and social withdrawal in schizophrenia.
What is enacted stigma?
Patients actual experience of discrimination