Mental Health and Society will introduce students to social scientific perspectives on understanding, explaining and responding to mental health (with a focus on mental illness/ill-health). The course will offer an important grounding for MA Health in Social Science students in understanding mental health from multidisciplinary social scientific perspectives, but will be of interest to many students studying across the university.
The course will cover the following areas: defining and measuring mental illness; explaining social patterns in mental illness; stigma; responding to mental illness - whole society, community-based and survivor/peer led support.