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Modified Labeling Theory

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In the most recent decades, mental disorders have entered to the medical model just as any other physical disease. If a person starts hearing voices, suffers from certain paranoia, or feels like is falling into a depression, he or she can call a specialist and take care of those symptoms just as back pain or a flu. However, mental disorders are not only permanent incurable, such as most of the physical illnesses, but they are susceptible for any stigmatization for people diagnosed with any mental condition. Therefore, a mental impaired individual suffers from the illness, and the reaction from the people around him or her being double condemned for their condition. In other words, they are double stigmatized. Nevertheless, social factors also …show more content…

On their findings they came across the limitations from the labeling theory and arrived to the conclusion that the modified labeling theory asserts more accurately. They stated that, “A modified labeling position offers the possibility of deepening our understanding of chronic mental disorder as a process within an influential social context” (Source 1). The elements or variables within this social context were self-esteem, employment status and support …show more content…

Statistically speaking, women are more likely than men to suffer from mental disorder (Goode, 2015, p.264). However, the kind of mental disorders between men and women differed due to the social roles and gender constructed expectations. Men are more likely to be diagnose with anti-social symptoms such as schizophrenia than women, where they are more likely to be diagnosed with mainly depression than men (Goode, 2015). The social labeling from gender expectations where men are more likely to engaged and performed in social setting than women, they are more likely to become more aggressive and violent. On the contrary, women who is expected to be more submissive in a social context, they are more likely to withdraw and fall into depression. In a more recent study, Eaton et al. (2012), he suggests that, “women tend to exhibit disorders on the internalizing side of the spectrum, such as anxiety and mood disorders, and men tend to exhibit disorders on the externalizing side of the spectrum, such as antisocial personality and substance use disorders” (quoted in Boysen et al.,2014). This internalization accredited to women has an implication from the labeling theory and the modified labeling theory and the way women fulfilled the self-concept once they have been diagnosed with a mental illness. In the same context, the

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