Category: 45 mins

Component Evaluation: Discussion

Component Evaluation: Discussion Time: 45 minutes; flexible Format: In-Class; online After the going through the module and unit content a hold a discussion that looks at the significance of art, activism, community-making, and self: How do these artists portray and discuss interlocking oppressions and engage in activism? How does artmaking contribute to community and collective …

Components: Self-guided

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

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 …

Component Evaluation: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppression Workshops

Component Evaluation: Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppression Workshops Time: 45-60 minutes Mode: In class; Online The artist shared their belief that mental health professionals should be participating in anti-oppressive and anti-racist workshops on an annual basis at the bare minimum. Yet, these workshops tend to be offered as one-offs through employers, or individuals have to seek out …

Component Evaluation: Unorthodox Alliances

Component Evaluation: Unorthodox Alliances Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-Class; Online The early MPA (Mental Patients Association) has a well-deserved reputation for radicalism, but in this exhibit scholars Geertje Boschma, Megan Davies, and Marina Morrow explore how MPA worked simultaneously alongside and in opposition to mainstream mental health.  This process interrupted existing power relationships and the …

Component Evaluation: 3 Plays

Component Evaluation: 3 Plays Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online Have students read and act out their play scripts. Online, students can listen to the audio recordings of the plays prepared by Branwen Willow and Cat Omura. Use the questions below, which were carefully developed by these community experts, to generate class discussion about the …

Components: Designing Dementia Care – Self-Guided

Components: Designing Dementia Care – Self-Guided Timing: 65 Minutes Mode: In-class, Online The video footage, audio excerpts and historical photographs and documents in this unit take learners within the walls of Ontario’s first purpose-built dementia care facility in the late twentieth century.  These self-guided resources are well suited for flipped classroom use with an in-class or …

Component Evaluation: Taking a Stance from History

Component Evaluation: Taking a Stance from History Timing: 45 Minutes Mode: In-class; Online None of the positions occupied by our three Speaking to History respondents existed before deinstitutionalization.  Mental health patients like Jayne Whyte did not live independently and take active roles in consumer organizations.  Service users like Lucy Costa did not go on to …

Component Evaluation: History’s Lessons 2

Component Evaluation: History’s Lessons – Part 2 Timing: 45 Minutes  Mode: In-class; Online Students often find policy difficult to understand and can struggle to comprehend how it directly impacts their day-to-day lives.  Health professionals have the same challenge linking policy to everyday professional practice.  The combination of historical documents and audio commentaries in this lesson …