Psychological problems key concepts
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- Created on: 01-04-20 16:37
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- Key concepts Psychological problems
- 4.) Stigma & discrimination
- Discrimination before diagnosis
- Discrimination when other people act on it (friends don't invite person out as they're boring)
- Withdraw from 'normal life' (cancel plans with friends)
- Discrimination after
- Treated differently due to perceptions now placed on them (e.g family keep children away)
- Stigma before diagnisis
- Negative stereotypes triggered when people see/hear abnormal behaviour
- People developing disorders perceived negatively, labelled as weird, crazy...
- Stigma after
- Particular disorders associated with own stereotypes (depression-suicidal)
- Individuals labelled, subjected to stigma, become self fulfilling prophecy (behave the way assumption expects them to)
- Discrimination before diagnosis
- 5.) Effects of mental health problems on wider society
- Public services
- Less funding
- More demand
- Care in the community (health & social care outside of hospitals & treating people in homes & normal circumstance
- Pressure on families & communities without resources, time, expertise
- Sufferers end up in & out hospital or drop out of society & end up on streets
- More likely to get better in usual surroundings
- more beneficial than isolating individuals
- Law
- Equality Act (2010) protects people from unfair treatment, rights to work & education
- Society's attitude
- Communities worried about being close to sufferers, conflict
- Government schemes trying to help
- Rising number people with mental health problems more likely yo interact with people with one, breaks down prejudice
- Public services
- 4.) Stigma & discrimination
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