1. Glater: lack of attention to research and results. Income
Glater: lack of attention to research and results. Income.class differences. Adult vs student effects
Bridges: education quality luck of birth

2. Social or biological construction
Health
Social or biological construction

3. What does it look like? In pairs:
List the words: adjectives, feelings, verbs, adverbs
Draw the images you think of
To illustrate your concept
Mental Health Lesson Plans:

4. Circle your positive terms or pictures?
Are there any?

5. Health, Defined Complete: Mental Physical Social (environmental)
Wellbeing

6. Sick, Defined Talcott Parsons defined the sick role:
Excused from social responsibilities
Not at fault for illness
Responsible for:
Wanting to get well
Seeking and following medical treatment

7. How does this contrast with American values of independence & responsibility?

8. Sick & Labeled Medicalized Defined as physiological
Treatable or in need of treatment
Worthy of understanding/sympathy
Progress to medicalization can be useful
As can progress away from medicalization (homosexuality)

9. Sick & Labeled Stigma Disqualifying or discounting trait
Reason to exclude, ignore or discount the person’s participation in society
Can be used to justify discrimination
Shame for the labelled person

10. Sick and Less

11. Social definition of sick
Medicalization can mean NOT one’s fault or within one’s power to change
Alcoholism: Disease or will power failure
ADHD or energetic
Depression or normal grief
Lazy or Lyme Disease or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

12. Mental Health Quiz

13. Commonly held beliefs about those with mental illness:
Dangerous
Violent
Hard to talk to
Unpredictable
Manipulative
Pitiful
Enjoys the attention
Incurable
Should not be stressed
At fault for their problems
Should not speak about their challenges
Agreed would be less likely to hire
Less intelligent and capable

14. Why such perceptions? News stories Movies Television
History – demonic possession

15. What mental illness may look like:
Angry
Peppy
Poor grades
Good grades
Withdrawn
Outgoing
Sleepy
Sleepless
Defining Depression:

16. Social Epidemiology Who gets what?
Distribution of illness by age, gender, race, class, neighborhood
Centers for Disease Control
National Institutes of Health

17. Who is more likely to suffer from depression
Who is more likely to suffer from depression? Who is least likely to seek help?

18. Depression through time
Ancient Greeks Accumulation of Black Biles or punishment of gods
Early Christians Test of faithfulness by the Devil
Middle Ages Melancholy a sign of being abandoned by God
Renaissance Starts to be viewed as a physical ailment
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19. Modern Times
1800s Loss of community, technological change, increase individualism and blame
Durkheim Suicide cause Anomie when society is changing fast, communities breakdown and there is a sense of normlessness
1900s Freud and Kraeplin talk therapy and less of a biologic reason
1950s development of anti-depressant drugs
1970s classification of mental illness, diagnostics, and treatments developed
1980s biologic reasons re-introduced

20. Stigma of Depression
Mental illness = person unlike a broken arm which is PART of the person
From Devil and god-curses to individual weakness
Later a lack of individual motivation