Health Sciences 2700A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychopathology, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Hypervigilance
15 Dec 2016
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Adolescence- iii (the medicalization of adolescence) the emergence of the medicalization of adolescence in canada: during canada"s century (20th century) adolescents presented as a social problem , medicine a powerful domain through which this problem was identi ed and controlled. Increased socio-economic change: wwi and wwii, urbanization, mixed-sex socialization, popular and youth culture. Together, these factors seen to challenge the status-quo. Led to the establishment of theories of modern adolescence, establishment of regulatory policies intended to enforce what was normal in each life stage i. e. , iq tests, age-graded schools, public health agendas. The disease-model framed adolescence a state of disequilibrium triggered by the biological imperatives of sexual maturation. Just as the liminal nature of adolescence explained many of its characteristics, it also provided an opportune time moment for medical intervention. The bodies of adolescents thus became objects for adult regulation and control, in the interests of their safe passage to the ultimate human developmental stage.
