Week 3 - Social Determinants Of Mental Health Flashcards
In what cases is the patient the family rather than the individual?
If patterns of thought/behaviour can’t be understood without considering family dynamics
At an abstract level, “_______/_______” are in an endless, two-way conversation with “_______/_________”
Science/medicine
Society/culture
What is “the shadow”?
The shadow personifies everything that the subject refuses to acknowledge about themselves
Can see plainly in others, DIFFICULT to see in ourselves
In modern media, the HERO and the VILLAIN are often played in psychological mirrors or counterparts
Psychology is both an “_____” and a “__________”
Art
Science
What are the social-determinants of health?
Give some examples
Non-medical factors that influence health outcomes
TERM IS A MISNOMER- not deterministic
Ex) Income/social protection, education, working life conditions, housing, food insecurity
Social determinant risk is “_____” evenly distributed within a population
Not
Depending on lots of factors…
Some people are more LIKELY to …
- develop conditions than others
- get treatment
- experience negative consequences
Social factors influencing health can “_______” across an entire population
Manifest
Emile Durkheim started study crime and suicide, he studied…..?
The sociological phenomena
NOT
Individual behaviours
Can increase or decrease in society
Ex) economic disruption
Shelia Liming attributes what to a “quiet catastrophe” in modern society (people lack/reject deep and meaning social connections)?
That national and sub-national level INCREASES in phenomena require a sociological explain action
BUT ALSO
Psychological explanations
True or false. Mental health and life satisfaction issues ARE NOT attributed to jobs
False
Burnout (from prolonged stress)
AND
Moral injury (people are forced to act against their ethics) are HUGE factors in mental health
What does Eyal Press’s “dirty work” term mean?
Work that society deems necessary but MORALLY TROUBLING
For low status people, made invisible to the average person
Workers often IMPOVERISHED
Causes PHYSICAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL injury’s at high rates
Who was Satoshi Kon?
His work is about how modern people cope with living MULTIPLE LIVES
(Private, public, onscreen, offscreen, waking, dreaming)
Felt that we experience time, space and reality at the SAME time as individuals, but also as a society
“_____%” of those with a mental health disorder consider themselves disadvantaged in employment because of their condition
“_____%” of those with a mental health disability consider themselves housebound
52%
24%
What are environmental hazards?
Communities based around garbage dumps associated with HIGH consumption of alcohol and other drugs = increased psychiatric treatment
Called sacrifice zones
What is the “lead hypothesis” for 20th century crime rates?
Environmental contaminants
May cause 30% intellectual disability
Effects cognitive development
