Sociological approaches Flashcards
Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS)
Devised by Brown and Harris
Where life events are graded according to the inherent meaning of events to the individual concerned
Russell Barton
Described institutional neurosis in 1976
Institutional Neurosis
Apathy
Lack of initiative
Loss of interest
Submissiveness
Goffman
Total institution
Moral career of a patient
In his 1961 work asylums
American sociologist
Betrayal funnel
People the patient trusts the most, family and friends report their actions to doctors and mental health professionals
Role stripping
The institutionalization process strips the person of his former identity
Holmes and Rahe Social readjustment scale
Rates 43 life events by units
Divorce tops to 73 units
Mortification
A series of assaults on his self image, then becomes part of the institution, also known as civil death
Zubin and Spring 1977
Stree vulnerability model
Mortification
A series of assaults on his self image, then becomes part of the institution, also known as civil death
Talcott Parsons
Defined the term sick role
American sociologist
Brown and Harris
Studied social and economic factors associated with onset of depression in women living in inner urban London, which includes
Absence of a close and confiding relationship
Loss of mother before age 11
Lack of employment outside the house
3 or more children below the age of 15 living at home
Talcott Parsons
Defined the term sick role
Health behaviors
Seen in healthy people who try to maintain their health, related to primary prevention of disease
Illness behavior
Mechanic and Volkart
Refers to any behaviour undertaken by an individual who feels ill to relieve that experience or to better define the meaning of the illness experience.
Is an active process
Engel
Bio psychosocial model
Used in etiological formulations
R D Lanig
Insanity is sometimes the sane response to an insane society
Prominent anti psychiatrist who wrote “the divided self”
Impairment
Interfering with structural or psychological function
Disability
Interfering with activities of the whole person in relation to the immediate environment
Thomas Szaz
Wrote
The myth of mental illness 1961
The manufacturer of madness 1971
He argued against the existence of mental illness
R D Lanig
Insanity is sometimes the sane response to an insane society
Prominent anti psychiatrist who wrote “the divided self” 1959
Also wrote sanity, madness and the family 1964
Impairment
Interfering with structural or psychological function
Disability
Interfering with activities of the whole person in relation to the immediate environment
Handicap
The social disadvantage resulting for the disability
Anti psychiatry movement
Refers to a confederation of psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses, social workers, laymen, whom oppose the traditional mental health practice and treatment Figures include R d Laing Thomas Sasz Foucault
Thomas Szaz
Wrote
The myth of mental illness 1961
The manufacturer of madness 1971
Emil Durkhiem
Considered the father of sociology
French journalist
As was Auguste Comte, considered by some
Emil Durkhiem
Considered the father of sociology
French journalist
As was Auguste Comte, considered by some
Abnormal illness behavior
By Issy Pilowski 1969
the persistence of a maladaptive mode of experiencing, perceiving, evaluating, and responding to one’s own health status, despite the fact that a doctor has provided a lucid and accurate diagnosis and management plan
Edwin Lemert
Developed the idea of primary and secondary deviance
Primary deviance
Any general
