SOCI 300 - Social Psychiatry

CR: 3
Prerequisite: Open only to majors in sociology; others by permission of the instructor. A sociocultural perspective on psychiatric disorder that includes values and socioeconomic factors related to definitions of mental health; societal responses to mental illness; prevalence and distribution of psychiatric disorder in population subgroups; influences of non-medical factors in diagnosis and treatment; the relation of mental health policy and organizatin of treatment systems to social inequlities.