Disability Discrimination Act and direct payments legislation (for all their deficiencies and restrictions) and the setting up of a Disability Rights Commission. Public safety’ is now explicitly the central concern of government mental health policy psychiatric system survivors seem to come somewhere between people with physical and sensory impairment, and people `with learning dif®culties’.
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) National, is Canada’s only voluntary charitable organization that exists to promote the mental health over twenty percent of our population living with mental illness Mental Health Commission of Canada and charging it with developing a national mental health strategy. federal government should initiate and operate a basic income program for persons with disabilities, PWLE – people with lived experience , newest label by mental health commission of Canada Hippocrates four humours.
-Melancholic = introvert unstable (neurotic) -Choleric = touchy aggressive (unstable neurotic) -Phlegmatic=introvert, passive stable -Sanguine=extrovert, stable the struggle for survival in modern societies, the requirement for refined and advanced mental functioning was reputed to be one of the principal causes for becoming mentally and physically ill week 3 Societal insanity can be understand as a global property of society and how it is evaluated.
Ex lookin at activity and not the people, with collective you look at people more or population so and societial you are lookin at the activities Contagion theory = hes doing it so I do it Convergence theory = like minds come together to form a collective WEEK 4 Primary Deviant = does deviant acts but does not adopt the deviant identity Secondary Deviant = does deviant acts knowing its deviant and continues to do them and adopts the self deviant identity Normaility = expectations of certain behaviours defined by the power elite in society.
Absolute Norms = hitler sets the norm Relative norm = normal norms always changing by society Individual norm Potential exam question: What happens to stigma when we consider someone’s “psychotic” behaviour to be the product of a genetic brain disorder? (question you may see on the exam) People assume you can’t do anything about it (genetic brain disorder) The person can’t be changed; and becomes more violet and unpredictable. What happens with stigma overall- it increases.
DSM – V = Coming out in may 2013, writers had to sign a non-disclosure agreement, bad no transparency = no CREDABILITY. This contract was eventually lifted. No way to tell if someone is a psychotic and even with early treatment it will not help, ULTRA HIGH RISK category aka “psychosis risk syndrome” should be removed from the DSM. Week 5 “Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day” in 1993 now known as Mad Pride Mental Patients’ Association (MPA) in Vancouver for self help programs Week 8 Hegemony – Dominant culture stays on top.