Contents of This Chapter:

• Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
  • Learning Objectives
  • Chapter Overview
  • Focusing Questions
  • Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Overview and Learning Objectives
• The Basics: Mental Health and Mental Illness as a Social Problem
  • What Do We Mean, Really?
  • Why Is Mental Health and Mental Illness a Social Problem?
  • Conflict in values
  • Socially constructed but real in consequences
  • Unequal outcomes
  • Licenses and Attributions for The Basics: Mental Health and Mental Illness as a Social Problem
• Social Location and Mental Health
  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Class Issues in Mental Health Treatment
  • Gender
  • Unpacking Oppression, Embodying Justice: Patriarchy
  • Licenses and Attributions for Social Location and Mental Health
• Mental Health: Models and Treatments
  • Medical and Psychological Models of Mental Health and Mental Illness
  • Biological model
  • Medical model
  • Psychological model
  • Sociological Approaches to Mental Illness
  • Licenses and Attributions for Mental Health: Models and Treatments
• Mental Health Is Social Justice
  • CAHOOTS
  • Loveland Foundation
  • Licenses and Attributions for Mental Health Is Social Justice
• Chapter Summary
  • Essential Ideas
  • Key Terms Review
  • Key Terms List
  • Discuss and Do
  • Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
• References

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