SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Antisocial Personality Disorder, Mania, Deinstitutionalisation
2 Mar 2013
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Alan strong, team lead for skills for safer living and the centre for excellence in peer. Support, self help alliance, waterloo wellington: what to do about stigma: lived experience and mental health supports . Jill cruikshank, program manager for community outreach and support programs, Homewood health centre community division: mental health supports . Mental illnesses result from an interaction between social stresses and other predisposing factors that are psychological, chemical, physiological, or genetic. Mental illness is a leading social and health problem in canada. Alterations in thinking, mood or behaviour associated with significant distress and impaired functioning. Canada: 20% of adults have had a mental disorder direct experience, 80% of adults know someone with a mental disorder indirect experience. Different types of mental disorders: women: depression, anxiety common mental disorders; linked to life stressors, men: antisocial personality disorder, substance abuse disorder, conduct disorder, common mental disorders, linked to life stressors. Adolescents/young adults: biology + identity formation + stress.
