SOCY 458 - Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

(3.00)

The course examines the social history of mental health: the concepts and treatments employed, the professional’s role, the role of social class in mental illness, social factors in psychopathology, stress, social support and coping processes, along with sociological critiques of mental health practices. More contemporaneously, to examine de-institutionalization and the community mental health movement, the relationship between mental illness and the criminal justice system, and lastly, the mental patients’ rights movement.

Course ID: 56825
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Requirement Group: You must complete SOCY 351 with a minimum grade of C and your academic standing must be junior.