2023/2024
Sociology of mental health and illness: theoretical and methodological approaches
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Mago-Lego
Delivered by:
School of Sociology
When:
4 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors:
Oxana Mikhaylova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
32
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course introduces to the classical and contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to the understanding and analysis of mental health, mental illness and mental health care in sociology with the specific focus on Russian cultural context. During the course we are going to 1) compare perspectives on mental health and illness in psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis and sociology. Furthermore, 2) we will discuss social stratification based on on the intersection between individual mental health and gender, class, race, ethinicty, age and the other dimensions of the social inequality.
Also, the topics of 3) patient narratives on mental health and illlness; 4) mental health and digitalization, 5) mental health care as profession and 6) in connection with criminal justice will be covered. Besides scientific papers discussion, participants of the course will be able to plan and conduct their own study in the field of sociology of mental health. It will be possible to use different methodological designs: qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method. The course will be of interest to the wide public of social scientists and beyond wishing to acquire sociological knowledge on mental health and illnesses.
Learning Objectives
- Knowledge of basic theories and methods of sociology of mental health and illness
- Capability of doing reseach using basic theories and methods of sociology of mental health and illness
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Names perspectives on mental health and illness in sociology
- Explains the theoretical and methodological ideas between different perspectives on mental health and illness
- Explains how social stratification may affect individual mental health
- Explains how different aspects of identity may affect personal mental health
- Explains how mental health changes over the life course
- Differentiates proffesional roles in mental health aid provision
- Describes how mental health services are provided
- Differentiates types of treatment that may be provided for people with mental health issues
- Explains how mental health of a person may be affected in prison
- Applies theories and methods of research of user experience in mental health in empirical studies
Course Contents
- Perspectives on mental health and illness
- Social stratification and mental health
- Gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and mental health
- Age, ageing and mental health over the life course
- The organization of mental health work, mental health work and professions
- The treatment of people with mental health problems, stigma and recovery
- Prisons, criminal justice and mental health
- Users of mental health services
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Cooper, M. (2013). The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling: Vol. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Emile Durkheim, & Steven Lukes. (2014). The Rules of Sociological Method : And Selected Texts on Sociology and Its Method. [N.p.]: Free Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1963188
- Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline and Punish : The Birth of the Prison (Vol. 2nd Vintage books ed). New York: Vintage. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=733102
- Goffman, E. (2009). Stigma : Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Touchstone.
- Grusky, D. B., & Weisshaar, K. R. (2018). Social Stratification : Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective (Vol. Fourth edition). New York, NY: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1808213
- Kirkham, S. (2015). Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice. Language in Society ; Volume 44, Issue 5, Page 629-652 ; ISSN 0047-4045 1469-8013. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404515000585
- Nicola Barban, & Francesco Billari. (2011). Classifying life course trajectories: A comparison of latent class and sequence analysis. Working Papers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.p.don.donwpa.041
- Niedziółka, T. (2018). User Experience Research and development of knowledge in the field of Human-Computer Interaction.
- Sugarman, L. (2004). Counselling and the Life Course. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=251790
- Tracey L Adams. (2015). Sociology of professions: international divergences and research directions. Work, Employment & Society, 1, 154.
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Suicide : a study in sociology, Durkheim, E., 2010