Critical Perspectives on the Biomedical Model of Mental Distress – Part 1 – Causes or Contributory Factors

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This video is one of a series that can be downloaded from this website. This series of videos explore different perspectives of mental distress. Mental health service users and carers posed questions to proponents of various approaches. The aim was to explore the views of the interviewees in relation to issues of promoting recovery, finding meaning in distress experiences and the causes and contributory factors related to mental distress. There are five perspectives explored in this series, they are Social Perspectives on Mental Distress, Cognitive Behavioural Perspectives on Mental Distress, Biomedical Model of Mental Distress, Critical Perspectives on the Biomedical Model of Mental Distress and User Carer Perspectives on Mental Distress. All 15 videos can be found in this resource.