A Review of Mental Health Care in Canada: Towards a System-Wide Change in Perception and Treatment

dc.contributor.advisorReaume, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.advisorWiktorowicz, Mary
dc.contributor.authorNagy, Erica
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-10T19:23:25Z
dc.date.available2016-12-10T19:23:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-12
dc.descriptionMajor Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management,Faculty of Health, York Universityen_US
dc.description.abstractThe main purpose of this critical research paper was to reflect on a few major issues that exist within the treatment of individuals within the mental health system in Canada today, and to provide recommendations for future research, policy and community development. The main themes that were generated during the literature review included issues related to diagnostic inflation, over-medicalization, the importance of good nutrition, socio-economic status and income inequality, and food insecurity. Through an exhaustive review and critical analysis of the literature using the feminist based standpoint theory, it was determined that mental health diagnosis is on the rise in Canada, and reliance upon the medical model as the primary treatment approach is also increasing. The concerns associated with this increase are exposed in the paper. The paper will discuss the importance of changing the focus to complementary and alternative treatment approaches to treating mental health, such as with nutrition, and the predicted outcome of this change. It was also determined that in order for such a change to occur, there would need to be a shift in the cultural perception of disability and mental health. As such, community providers may consider utilizing a critical approach in their practice and delivery of service, called critical community practice, derived from the field of social work and disability studies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32809
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsThe copyright for the paper content remains with the author.
dc.subjectmental healthen_US
dc.subjectalternative treatmenten_US
dc.subjectdisabilityen_US
dc.subjectcritical community practiceen_US
dc.titleA Review of Mental Health Care in Canada: Towards a System-Wide Change in Perception and Treatmenten_US
dc.typeMajor Research Paperen_US

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