Discuss whether biomedical (or biogenetic) explanations of mental illness help or hinder efforts to reduce social stigma associated with these conditions.
Background information Many experts working in the area of mental illness believe that it is only a matter of time before we have comprehensive genetic and/or biological explanations for many common psychological disorders (see, for example, the American Psychiatric Association’s statement on the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders ). The central topic of the two assignments is whether the increased ‘medicalisation’ of mental illness, as proposed by the biogenetic explanations, has any impact on mental health outcomes and public attitudes towards people with mental illness. Reducing social stigma surrounding mental illness is a target of many public awareness campaigns (e.g., BeyondBlue, ‘Man therapy’). Are these public awareness campaigns helped by the increasing focus on biogenetic explanations for mental illness, or are these explanations actually counterproductive to reducing social stigma. Page 548 of the Burton et al. (2015) textbook also provides important background information
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