Week 12: Mental Health and Illness Flashcards
AIHW estimates spending on mental health related services in Australia as
9 billion
social construction
socially created characteristics of human life - the way people actively make the societies and communities in which they live, work and play
social construction of mental health and illness
- deviance
- institutionalisation and labelling (diagnosis)
- human rights
- recovery
deviance
behaviour or activities that violate social expectations about what is normal
exclude people from society through medicalisation and labelling
common societal responses to deviance
exclusion and control
reasons for the Burdekin Report?
- ignorance about nature/ prevalence of mental illness
- discrimination
- misconceptions about people who are dangerous
- belief that people w/ mental illness never recover
how was the Burdekin Report different from other inquiries?
- national inquiry: aim to evaluate laws and provisions in each state and territory (had not been done before)
- had been sufficient time to see the effects/defects of deinstitutionalisation
- rights-based rather than service-based (major shift in emphasis)
- conducted w reference to Aust. international treaty obligations
some of the findings from the Burdekin Report
- widespread, systematic discrimination: consistently denied rights and services that they are entitled to
- stigma and discrimination compounded stressed of providing care
after burdekin report, savings from deinstitutionalisation were redirected where?
NOT to mental health services in the community
intersectoral action
actions affecting health outcomes undertaken by sectors outside the health sector
concept of recovery
consumer perspectives - that people need to recover their lives (includes recovering from psychiatric services)
recovery model
staying in control of their life despite experiencing a mental health problem
