Reflection
November 3, 2020
Application questions
November 3, 2020
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1. Explain how The Princess and the Fog can be used as a way to teach and advocate for young children who are experiencing depression at a young age (4-6 sentences).

2. What does it mean to pass? How is passing applicable to your own situation or to the lives of those around you? (8 pts)

3.  Cox shows the contradictions of passing for those with mentally disability and the blurred lines between acting and being sane. Cox discusses how passing can both limit and increase the distress of those with mental illness. Passing occurs when others do not perceive the person as distressed (100). What does Cox mean by this? (6 pts)

4.  Cox writes, The ability to fake it til you make it, or pass as sane, relies heavily on knowing that behaviors signify mental health in a particular community (105). She states that assessments of mental illness focus on what one does, and does not do, with ones body. What does she mean by this? (6 pts)

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