K272 Challenging Ideas in Mental Health

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• Socially Constructed and defined by the different ; professionals, communities ,societies and cultures with different ways of ; Conceptulising its Nature , Causesthat determin what is    ' MENTALLY HEALTHY' By deciding what interventions appropriate

1. Orign of 'The Other; Social Catagories which leads to Prejudice and discrination

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   • The term Other is socially constructed and is known as the human tendancy to creat catagories, where' 'People who dont fit in can be olaced away from the mainstream of the population'
2. seen to puch mentally ill people to

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   • physical separation of people to the margins of that society Sibley (1995) traces the :" The Physical and Marginalisation of people in what he calls the  ' The geographies of exclusion ' part of the exclusion is where the bad , mad and imperfect are what is known as 'The Other' and through this stereotyping form who are rejected and disregarded