MACP 671 - Structural & Sociocultural Bases of Health and Dysfunction

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Traditionally, psychologists and counsellors work within circumscribed clinical contexts within which mental health issues are deemed functions of individual pathology. However, many mental health issues are symptomatic of larger structural or systemic phenomena that characterize the context in which people live and over which they have limited control (e.g., public policy, institutional practices and behaviours, and large macrotrends). Therefore, effective clinical intervention and problem-solving requires an ability to see, analyze and understand these phenomena, and to develop appropriate remedial responses.