Health Sciences 2700A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hans Friedrich Gadow, Dysfunctional Family, Sick Role

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2700A/B
• Professor: Treena Orchard

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Power in the nurse-patient relationship: nursing scholars assume that nurse-patient relationships are nonhierarchal and that theory development in nursing is guided by the ideal of patie(cid:374)ts" right to self-determination. Involuntary hospitalized adolescents are deprived of their autonomy, nurses and other mental health workers are given authority over them: we must recognize this power imbalance, nurses need to develop theories that address issue of power in this relationship. Critical issues concerning medicalization of adolescents" social and. Issues concerning psychiatric diagnosis: it is disciplinary power of medicine that gives psychiatry its power, fou(cid:272)ault"s (cid:449)ork used (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause: leadi(cid:374)g i(cid:374) dis(cid:272)ourse of dis(cid:272)ipli(cid:374)ar(cid:455) power of medical diagnosis, and also gives possible solutions. Nursing and caring for the involuntarily hospitalized adolescent theory: when adolescents institutionalized because of socially unacceptable behaviour= deprived of their right to self-determination, nurses have authority over them, make decisions for them.