This course critically examines how we understand, label, define, diagnose, talk about and respond to mental health and addictions. Social construction of health and social determinants of health frameworks and introduced. Topics may include dual and concurrent diagnoses, gambling and substance use, deinstitutionalization and system responses, community mental health, stigmatization, and poverty.
Prerequisites: SOCI 1001 or equivalent and two term-courses in lower level sociology, all with grades of C or better. |
