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The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness

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The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness

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Learn how social factors promote mental health, influence the onset and course of mental illness, and affect how mental illnesses are diagnosed and treated. This course explores how our understanding of mental health and illness has been influenced by social attitudes and social developments in North America and around the world. The course begins by situating our contemporary mental health practices in historical context, then looks at different aspects of mental health, mental illness and mental health services and their connections to what’s going on in our social environment.

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What is mental health and what causes mental illness?

2.0 introduction to lecture 2 3:11

2.1 defining mental health 7:14

2.2 what is mental illness? 12:23

2.3 social determinants of mental health 9:35

2.4 SDoH in action 14:13

2.5 the biopsychosocial perspective on mental health 13:43

2.6 applying the biopsychosocial perspective 12:07

2.7 Conclusion 4:17

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Charmaine Williams
Associate Professor
Faculty of Social Work

,

. Hi again everybody.

We're back for week two of the social context of mental health and illness.

So last week we did a whirlwind tour through about a 100 years of the history

of psychiatry and mental health treatment mostly in the North American context.

And I know for some of you it really felt like a whirlwind because I can get pretty

fast when I'm talking. So this week I'm really going to try to

concentrate on slowing down a bit and I hope that's helpful.

and I'm really looking forward to the topics that we're going to do this week.

I hope that what you're going to see, and I will be pointing this out, I hope that

what you're going to see is that knowing that history that we covered in the first

lecture is going to be very helpful for now being able to put what we see as the

contemporary issues in mental health into context.

So let's, let's see where we're going next.

This week's lecture focuses on three main topics.

The first topic is what is mental health and what is mental illness?

Like, how do we make that distinction and how are we using those terms, especially

in this course. So that's the first topic.

The second topic is really looking at the social context for mental health and

illness. So we're going to be doing that by

talking about the social determinants of mental health.

And then the third topic is what's called the bio psycho social perspective of

mental health, and this really brings together what is our current

understanding of what biologically, psychologically, and socially is

implicated in experiences of mental health and illness.

So that's what's going to wrap up everything for us today.

I see this lecture is dealing with fundamental questions.

What makes it possible for us to stay mentally healthy? And on the other side,

what is it that contributes to the experience of some of us getting mentally

ill. Actually many of us if you look at the

statistics. If your statistics like one in four

people will experience depression over their lifetime.

one in ten people across the whole spectrum of mental disorder they'll, you

know, you'll see people experiencing that.

That means that almost everyone, if you think about your own life, either you or

somebody you know, somebody you care about,

somebody you work with, experiences mental illness.

and, and hopefully many of those people are also experiencing mental hell.

So I think that you know, try and understand what it is that makes both of

these experiences happen makes it possible for people to be mentally

healthy and also creates the possibility of being mental, mentally ill.

I think these are very important questions.

So I really look forward to seeing how the issues that we're covering in this

lecture help us attempt to answer that and inform our thinking as we move

forward in this course. So let's get started.

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