SOC318H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hans Selye, Stressor, Medicalization
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Historical development: stressor concept, stressors: life events. Stress process model: applying the spm. Sociological model: medicalization turning a normal range of qualities into medical disorders, social construction any disease" is a false label of personality by the powerful, the winnie-the-pooh paper. Medical model: internal brain, hormones, genes, biology, fixed and not easily changeable, a disease", treated with medication, individualistic and ignores social factors. Structural frame (spm) social causes of mental illness. Interrelation of diverse factors: not unusual people doing unusual things it"s just use in our everyday roles with everyday stress, adaptive social resources people have to ward off stressors. In the syrian refugee mother"s study she has done stressors identified: crystalized loss, schools, uncertain future, the fear that the children won"t continue with their familial and cultural values. Resources & buffers: a part of the individual that shield us from distress, next weeks topic.
