SC326-6-FY-CO:
Psychiatry and Mental Illness
2017/18
Sociology and Criminology
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 05 October 2017
Friday 29 June 2018
30
23 March 2011
Requisites for this module
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BA L3C8 Criminology with Social Psychology,
BA L3H8 Criminology with Social Psychology (Including Placement Year),
BA LHC8 Criminology with Social Psychology (Including Year Abroad),
BA CL83 Sociology with Social Psychology,
BA CL93 Sociology with Social Psychology (Including Placement Year),
BA CLV3 Sociology with Social Psychology (Including Year Abroad),
BA LCJ8 Sociology with Psychosocial Studies (Including Placement Year),
BA LJ8C Sociology with Psychosocial Studies (Including Year Abroad),
BA LJC8 Sociology with Psychosocial Studies
The aim of these two 15-credit optional modules, which can be taken as a single 30 credit module, is to look critically at the field of mental illness, at psychiatric thinking and practice, and at mental health services.
The first term looks critically at the field of mental illness, focusing on how the concept of mental illness has been developed by psychiatrists, on the way in which the types of mental illness and their boundaries have been expanded over time, at some of the causes of the expansion and at whether it is possible to distinguish the normal and the pathological, considering some of the concepts and theories that can help us understand these complex developments. It looks at how mental illness is measured in epidemiological surveys, at the data generated on the distribution of mental illness by class, gender and ethnicity and at how the differences observed can be understood. It then considers the debates about causation, including the role of genetic, psychological, social and cultural factors. Throughout the debates are explored using a number of examples such as depression, anorexia nervosa and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
The second term focuses on mental health services and treatment. It first looks at the development of asylum care, the location for the emergence of psychiatry as a profession, and at the development of mental health services in the community in the twentieth century. It also considers the concepts and theoretical perspectives that can help us understand service development, examines the current mental health services, the role played by other professionals in the mental health field, such as psychiatric social workers, mental health nurses, and clinical psychologists, examining the emergence of these groups and professionalisation. It also considers the controversial issue of compulsory detention and issues concerning the difficulties of predicting dangerousness, and also stigmatisation. Finally, we look at different types of treatment and at how they can be evaluated.
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There is one lecture and a separate smaller class each week
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Essay 1 |
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50% |
| Coursework |
Essay 2 |
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50% |
| Exam |
Main exam: 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Joan Busfield, email: busfj@essex.ac.uk.
Professor Joan Busfield
Jane Harper, Undergraduate Administrator, Telephone: 01206 873052
E-mail: socugrad@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Carrie Anne Myers
The City University
Lecturer
Available via Moodle
Of 126 hours, 123 (97.6%) hours available to students:
3 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).
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