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Teacher notes Lesson about the history of mental illnessEQ: How differently have people viewed mental health?Rationale: We have a duty (moral and legal (Equality Duty Act, 2010)) to reflect the past of people in society in our history classrooms. What we want students to learn from this:Mental health has a past and therefore a historyIdeas of what constitutes mental illness and health have changed over timeIdeas of what causes and the treatments for mental illness have changed over time due to these changing ideas, but also other cultural and societal changes. Where to teach it: start of GCSE / as a KS3 study to encourage conceptual understanding of change over time (thematic).Resources:“PPT for HA session on MH 2019”Print in colour the 13 starter images (case-notes) at full sizeTitles in groups (bold headings)Causal ideas in groups (with pictures)Treatment in groups (in purple)Set of A3 living graphsA3 plain paper for road-mapsSets of the slot-ins (see below – available on the YorkClio page) PPT 1 – Title holding pagePPT 2 – StarterGive everyone student a copy of a case-note to read and think on re PPT screen. (If time swap them around a bit so students see a few of them.) The full list with answers is: 1796: man with epilepsy – then gets mentally ill in asylum (today would be medicines for epilepsy) 1796: woman with cruel husband – gets better in asylum – home and dies (today would hope would be getting out of relationship)1796: suicidal man (today would try to treat with drugs and pos. section)1884: woman with delusions and refusing food (drugs, therapy and pos. section)1885: could this be an abusive family? (social services and safeguarding)1885: middle aged man who has had a breakdown? (drugs, therapy, section)1917: woman driven over edge by war worry (therapy, anxiety meds) 1917: man depression worsened by war (therapy and meds) 1917: man with learning difficulties agitated by war (different way of looking at this altogether + pos meds) 1917: ex-soldier with advanced syphilis (cured with drugs at early stage)1919: wayward adolescent girl – 3 pages to this one (just whole societal difference to way we treat young girls and women(?))Emphasise to students the do not need to worry re understanding every word to get a sense of these – these are real archival materials and a chance for students to get to handle. (The sources are records from the Bootham and Retreat hospital archives held at the Borthwick Institute, University of York). PPT 3 – Rationale for starter – what we would seek to draw out in teacher talkMental health has a past and therefore a history: very real issue for so many of us, talked about more today, where have we come from to here is a relevant Q. Ideas about mental illness and health shift over time: notice the way it is also tied up to societal issues – status of women etc. Bringing people centre stage – pre the oral history age so-called ordinary people only present in hospital and prison records in large numbers. Archival material is rich and engaging – this is ‘real’, look how people wrote differently, used different language etc. PPT 4 and 5 - Timeline - 1Give groups the title headings and the causal ideas cards (the ones with pictures) and get them to match them up and put them on the desk in time order. PPT 6 - Timeline - 2Give groups the treatment cards (in purple) and get them to match those to what they have already done. PPT 7 - FactorsGive out post-it notes and get them to label their timeline with a post-it wherever they identify a factor at work. PPT 7 is the description of the factors(No PPT slide) Living graphs leading to discussionGive them the A3 graphs and they draw the three line graphs (either split per group or do all). Then use these to draw out in discussion the interesting developments over time. Draw out from this the pace, nature and scale of change (and continuity), including the turning points. Make each one into a metaphor leading to the idea of putting together a Foster style road map. (Example on PPT 8) Note: see also YorkClio ‘slot-ins’ where there is a section on disability history of slot-ins you can use as part of your existing packed curriculum. For example: The Retreat Hospital Lady Eleanor DaviesKing George III ................
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