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Who Feels OK?: The Social Problem of Mental Health

Contents of This Chapter:

  1. Learning Objectives and Chapter Overview
    1. Learning Objectives
    2. Chapter Overview
    3. Kate’s Story
    4. Focusing Questions
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Overview
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. All Rights Reserved Content
  2. The Basics: Mental Health and Mental Illness as a Social Problem
    1. What Do We Mean, Really?
    2. Why Is Mental Health and Mental Illness a Social Problem?
      1. Mental health and mental illness go beyond individual experience
      2. Unpacking Oppression, Mixing Justice: The Social Construction of Mixed Race Identity
      3. Social Location and Mental Illness Prevalence
    3. Conflict in values
    4. Socially constructed but real in consequences
    5. Unequal outcomes
    6. Licenses and Attributions for The Basics: Mental Health and Mental Illness as a Social Problem
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
  3. Social Location and Mental Health
    1. Race and Ethnicity
    2. Class Issues in Mental Health Treatment
    3. Gender
    4. Unpacking Oppression, Embodying Justice: Patriarchy
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Social Location and Mental Health
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  4. Mental Health: Models and Treatments
    1. Medical and Psychological Models of Mental Health and Mental Illness
    2. Biological model
    3. Medical model
    4. Psychological model
    5. Sociological Approaches to Mental Illness
      1. Functionalist
      2. Conflict
      3. Symbolic Interactionist
      4. Intersectional
    6. Licenses and Attributions for Mental Health: Models and Treatments
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. Open Content, Shared Previously
      3. All Rights Reserved Content
  5. Mental Health Is Social Justice
    1. CAHOOTS
    2. Loveland Foundation
    3. Licenses and Attributions for Mental Health Is Social Justice
      1. Open Content, Original
      2. All Rights Reserved Content
  6. Chapter Summary
    1. Essential Ideas
    2. Comprehension Check
    3. Key Terms List
    4. Discuss and Do
    5. Licenses and Attributions for Chapter Summary
  7. References

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Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice Copyright © by Kimberly Puttman; Kathryn Burrows; Patricia Halleran; Bethany Grace Howe; Nora Karena; Kelly Szott; and Avery Temple is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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