Mental Health Liteacy - Week 3

What are the Social determinants of Health

The social determinants of health are the environmental, economic, and social factors that affect people's health.

What is Intersectionality

The different facets of a persons identity that overlap to create power, privilege or opression.

What is positionality

The practice of recognizing your position in the world, you worldview, experiecnes etc. and where that comes from.

What is sanisim

The systemic discrimination of peoples who live with neruodivergency, mental health conditions, or psychiatric condtions.

14-year-old Rodrigo hears voices in his head and understands this in a way that fits with his Indigenous worldviews. Labelling Rodrigo as having a mental health condition and separating him from other students is an example of

Sanism

The ways Faisal’s race, gender, class, disability, and other identities combine to form his unique experiences with privilege and oppression describes.

Intersectionlaity

The ways in which Janine’s beliefs and values shape her opinions about the COVID-19 vaccine describe

Positionality

(T/F) Mental health problems experienced by those who identify as LGBTQ2+ are related to their experiences with others.  

True.

This model argues that while individual bodily differences and conditions can cause impairments, disability is caused by society

The social model of disability

A framework that analyzes disability not as a personal medical tragedy, but as a complex social, cultural, and political phenomenon. It challenges the systemic ableism embedded in societal structures and advocates for a shift in power, prioritizing the lived experiences of disabled individual

Critical disability theory

Treating people living with a disability as if they are an inspiration or as if it’s tragic. This is deeply patronizing.

The tragety Narative

How do you define a learning disability

"Learning Disabilities (LDs) are specific neurological disorders that affect the brain's ability to store, process, retrieve or communicate information. They are invisible and lifelong."

(Learning Disabilities Association of Canada, n.d.)

What are ACE’s ?

Adverse childhood experiences are the events that can happen in people from birth to 18 years of age that can be traumatizing. Experiencing traumatic events such as physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect, violence in the home, and other traumatic experiences changes the way the brain develops.

BCE’s

benevolent childhood experiences. These are positive childhood experiences.

Can counter act the negative impact of ACE’s