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Understanding a Social Problem: A literature review - Coggle Diagram
Understanding a Social Problem: A literature review
The literature
How I chose the literature
Strengths / Weaknesses of literature
WEAKNESS - focused on the UK / English speaking countries / the West, and is orientated to the late 20th, early 21st centuries
This means we might be limiting our ability to understand how social issues can be understood in different historical/cultural contexts
Main themes from the literature
How I assessed the relevance / usefulness of the literature
Reflection on how far it helps to explain why it is important to consider mental health as a social problem that needs to be addressed by social policy
MH affects a persons ability to get/hold a a job
Can lead to that person to not only self-harm, but also cause harm to society (be violent? or another eg of how) - can be associated with dangerous behaviour
Because otherwise we may leave it as a medical 'diagnosis', when it needs social treatment, not just medically
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If its a social problem, there a social causes. We need to identify it as a social problem to then change these causes, e.g put a policy in place limit how many hours someone can work in a week / or change the school system to limit stress etc (could refer to 'The Cambridge handbook of social problems' ?)
poses a threat to social order?
it can be the result of other social problems, such as: disability, poverty, homelessness, unemployment - any distressing factor in one's environment
CLAIMSMAKING
? - How understanding of mental health is changing - refer to MHRF research because this led to changes in society's understanding of what it means to have a mental illness (the social construct here)
the media has been a huge resource here / propelled the voices of those calling mental health as a social problem, media coverage has been huge especially because it is young people on it, and they are suffering under the school systems?
Financial resources - more funding has been directed to it? (is this true?) - this is where I can refer to MHRF, because the research there lead to us demanding more funding for research now? because of what we learnt maybe?
WHO are the claimsmakers?
A lawyer who had laws changed?
A scientist who identified the harm of mental health in (eg schools / work / prions etc/ in men?) = Derek Richter, founder of MHRF
A social activist who advocated for the importance in mental health? maybe someone who referred to suicide rates?
This could be the introduction of free NHS counselling? Or look at the movement: Global mental health
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) aims to transform the treatment and understanding of mental illnesses.
POLICY-MAKING
How treatment has changed from shock-therapy to talking therapy/medication
Equality act being implemented in 2010
*draw on direct legislation
changes in curriculum - both to relieve stress for students, and also teaching them the different ways that MH can look like