Youth on Mental Health Policy Unit Takeaways Recognize how children and youth are characterized within Canadian mental health policy. Consider the implications of how children and youth are represented in policy, and how their agency and inclusion offer new interpretations. Reflect on the gap that racialized youth see between how people who create mental health …
Letters to Professionals Unit Takeaways To explore the messages that youth have for mental health professionals about what helps and what hinders their wellbeing. To consider the ways young people experience their mental health in relation to what they need from professionals and professional services. To recognize microaggressions committed against children and youth because of …
Resisting Adultism in Mental Wellbeing Unit Takeaways Through an understanding of intersectionality, examine the ways discourses about “childhood” intersect with mental health discourses from the perspectives of psychiatrized youth. By looking at how youth understand mental health, and mental health issues, recognize how psychiatrized youth resist pathologization of their experiences of distress in childhood. By …
Component Evaluation: Language and Visualization Timing: 35 minutes; flexible Mode: In-class OPTION 1: In groups of 2-4 have students write down the word capitalism on a blank sheet of paper. Ask them to visualize the connections between capitalism, oppressions, and mental health that are discussed in Cheers to Capitalism. Once those connections are established, encourage …
Component Exploration 2: Jane Doe Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online Kiran Shoker is a young South Asian Canadian woman. The first component presented is her poem “Jane Doe,” is about the South Asian female body as a colonialized entity. The second component is an excerpted set of Shoker’s thoughts on her poem taken from …
Component Exploration 1: “Cheers to Capitalism” Timing: 30 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online C.J. is a young Asian-Canadian woman. The first component presented is her poem “Cheers to Capitalism,” which is about the racial and gender stereotyping she has experienced in the workforce. The second component is an excerpted set of C.J.’s thoughts on her poem …
Disappearing Completely Takeaways Understand how the intersecting oppression of racism and sanism within mental health systems and in the community affect racialized people experiencing mental distress Analyze the intersections of race, gender, citizenship and mental distress for racialized people in Canada Appreciate the impacts of cultural expectations, stereotyping, and racism on individuals’ experiences of mental …
Components: Self-guided Timing: 35-45 minutes Mode: In-class; Online Students should listen to Psychiatric Hollywood and the accompanying audio by Annalissa Crisostomo describing how and why the artivist piece was created. Link to Psychiatric Hollywood on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/acrisostomo/sets/psychiatric-hollywood See Full Transcript for Psychiatric Hollywood here Appendix A See Audio Transcript here Appendix B While listening, …
Component Evaluation: Deconstructing Madness Timing: 40 – 50 minutes Mode: In-class; Online Although it is extremely important to challenge depictions and false representations found within film and other media, we should not discount the benefits of fiction and non-fiction narratives to participate in practices of bearing witness and truth-telling needed to combat stigma and produce …
Psychiatric Hollywood Takeaways Recognize how emotions can motivate us to engage with ourselves, our own beliefs, and others through self-reflection and dialogue Acknowledge how diagnosis and treatment can stigmatize and oppress marginalized groups and survivors of trauma Understand how fiction and non-fiction art can participate in bearing witness and storytelling Components Psychiatric Hollywood Audio Series …
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