HLTHAGE 1CC3 Midterm: Mental Health Midterm and Test 2 Review

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Health, Aging and Society
• Course: HLTHAGE 1CC3
• Professor: Mat Savelli

Document Summary

Mental illness: it is seen through the eyes of the beholder. Comes with unpredictable or uncontrollable actions done by people (ex. Not generalized; knowledge comes from single persons mental illness) Brain scans are common to see what mentally ill brains may look like: the psychological model, the behaviour model (not clear science on mentally ill brain vs. healthy brain; varies per person) Comes from the mind (mind and brain are different) Physicians prescribe prescription meds for mentally ill patients. Arise from internal mental processes that reflect individual(cid:495)s. People assume they (cid:498)learn(cid:499) it from somewhere and its about. Mental disorder viewed as a learned behaviour rather than. Removing the symptoms = removing disorder interaction with their environment physiological or psychological unlearning these ways: the sociological model. Society as the root of mental illness (the way society is organized) Wealthy wan with good job less likely to be diagnosed with illness vs. single mom with 3 jobs is.