SOC of Mental Health and Illness Test 2

David Herzberg

Who wrote Happy Pills?

Hollingshead and Redlich

Who determined that socioeconomic status and morbidity, mortality, and disability has an inverse relationship?

Eugenics Principles

aimed at eliminating “bad genes” from the population

Buck vs Bell

1927 Supreme Court case legitimizing sterilization; target populations were “feeble minded”

Alexandra Stern

Who wrote “Sterilized in the Name of Public Health”?

Relf vs Weinberger

12 and 14 y.o Relf sisters sterilized without consent; mother couldn’t read English; Mexican women deemed “hyperbreeders”; led to requirement of informed consent 

Madrigal v Quilligan

10 sterilized women argued that their constitutional rights to bear children had been violated; doctors found innocent and acted in good faith

Social Class

a division of society based on social and economic status; typically measured using income, education, and occupation

Social Determinants of Health

nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes (age, place of birth and childhood, what/how they worship and grow)

Schedule 1

highest potential for abuse and potential to create severe psychological and/or physical dependence

Schedule 5

lowest potential for abuse and potential to create severe psychological and/or physical dependence

Schedule 4

What schedule did Valium get put into/created for?

Alexandra Brewer

Who wrote “We were on our own: Mothers’ experiences navigating the fragmented system of professional care for autism”

various new professional and paraprofessional groups emerged offering alternative interventions beyond institutions

How did deinstitutionalization impact autism?

provides a free public education to eligible children with disabilities and esnures special education and services to them

What did IDEA do?

Internalizing disorders

What are women more likely to suffer from?

Externalizing disorders

What are men more likely to suffer from?

differences stem from variations in the stressors men and women experience

Gender exposure hypothesis

differences stem from discrepancies in men’s and women’s reactions to stressors 

Gender vulnerability hypothesis

Thomas Szasz

Wrote The Myth of Mental Illness

Irving Zola

Wrote about the mechanisms of social control and depoliticizing issues (individualizing problems - ignoring social factors)

Eliot Freidson

Wrote about medicine’s power over human behavior and social meanings

Ivan Illich

Wrote about overmedicalization occurring and iatrogenic effects (medical care having negative sideeffects at times)

Michel Foucault

Wrote about using (bio)power over others; pathologizing everyday life, and controlling through discourse

Medicalization

process by which human problems or experiences come to be defines as medical problems; categories can expand or contract

Medical Model

diseases are biological conditions that are universal; they do not vary by time or place

Sociomedical Model

Social determinants of health shape susceptibility to disease

Social Construction Model

illness is a social designation and experience - one embedded in social and cultural systems; shaped by stakeholder groups; calling something an illness gives it a social meaning

Socially-contingent

categories that change and evolve with certain social circumstances

Social Problems Theory

posits that what is deemed to be a social problem is not ‘given’ but attains a particular meaning 

David Mechanic & David Rochefort

Wrote “Deinstitutionalization: An Appraisal of Reform”   

Mayes & Horwitz

Wrote “DSM-III and the Revolution in the Classification of Mental Illness”