HLTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Salutogenesis, Stereotype, Psychotherapy
30 Dec 2015
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Best approach: salutogenic models optimal focus on promoting good mental health and preventing illness differs from focus on illness and treatment. Mental health continuum involves absence of mental illness and maximal mental disorder. Optimum mental health is considered flourishing and minimal is considered languishing. Absence of mental illness: absence of psychiatric symptoms effective prevention or cure. 11% of all years lived with disability globally (who 2013) Disabilities adjustment in life i? in canada: increasing number of patients, increasing costs, e. g. , affected over 6. 7 million people in 2011, estimated . 3 billion spent on services for mental illness in 2011 (smelanin et al. Stigma historically, from a mark or brand to spoiled identity (erving goffman, A feeling of being inferior, degraded, deviant, and shamefully different (kleinman 1988: 159) recent recognition of structural inequalities social, economic and political power (kleinman and hall-clifford 2009)
