HLTB40H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hydrotherapy, Canada Health Act, Chlorpromazine
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Paradigms and politics in mental health care in canada. People deemed unfit for service due to neuropsychiatric reasons and during war they focused attention on the role of environmental stressors in the manifestation of mental illness. *** this was the first major instance of the normalization of mental illness. Case management: looks at mentally ill individuals within the context of their community including housing, employment, education, legal matters, and other services in addition to the issue of proper medical treatment. Assertive community treatment: designed for intensive users of the health care system: generally those with serious and persistent illnesses or functional impairment; superior for improving clinical status and reducing hospitalization. Recovery and empowerment (mid 1990s to the present: challenge to traditional epistemology, earliest third wave of feminist thought which argued that women understand knowledge different from men, this approach characterized by interrelated themes. First, it accepts the postmodern assertion that oppression is perpetuated by the articulation of categorical dualities (good/bad)
