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The article discusses how biomedical assumptions is implemented into the field of social work and how social workers are forced to diverts attention from social adversity factors contributing to the development of psychotic behavior and available psychosocial interventions for this disorder, thereby perpetuating biomedical dominance of social work services. Problems in living and related distress are converted into medical problems, obscuring the role of environmental factors such poverty, socialization etc.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/j.2016.29.1.237
Date of publication: 2016-12-10 10:33:52
Date of submission: 2016-03-26 14:16:21
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