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Question 1- According to Pescosolido, the public has adopted an increasingly scientific understanding of mental illness, including beliefs that most disorders have chemical or genetic causes. Using your own words, explain how this increasing public sophistication has affected mental health stigma. (Hint: Pescosolido describes the "ironic" role of neuroscience.)

Question 2- Estimates indicate that as many as 10% of all 10 year old boys are taking Ritalin for ADHD. Over the last few decades, ADHD diagnosis rates have increased in all age groups, including among adults. Anti-psychiatrists like Thomas Szasz and Labeling Theorists like Scheff are known for their critiques of psychiatry. First, describe how you think Szasz would explain rapidly rising rates of ADHD diagnoses in the United States. Second, state whether you mostly agree or mostly disagree with this anti-psychiatry perspective, and explain your thoughts.

Question 3- explain how the relationship between mental health and socioeconomic position (i.e., education, occupation, and wealth/income) could be the result of a social causation process. In other words, how can the social environment "get under the skin" to make people sick? (Hint: You should use concepts and examples from the Eaton & Muntaner reading in your answer)

Question 4- First, briefly explain the meaning of the mental health "race paradox" in the case of Black Americans. What is "paradoxical" about the mental health of Black Americans? Second, explain Brown's suggested solution to this paradox in the article you read. What does Brown suggest that psychiatrists do? Do you agree or disagree with Brown's suggestions?

Question 5- According to Metzl in Protest Psychosis, diagnoses of schizophrenia increased among black men in the 1960's. Using your own words, briefly explain the main reasons why schizophrenia diagnoses became more common among black men at that time. Were more black men developing mental disorders during this time? If not, what was going on?