1. How has meaning of mental health disabilities evolved over the past few centuries? In the past twenty to thirty years?

2. How did eugenics affect the lives and treatment of people with mental health disabilities during the 19th and 20th centuries? What were the similarities and differences between Nazi Germany and the United States during the 1930s and 1940s?

3. A significant controversy involving people with mental health disabilities involves the use of involuntary treatment. Describe conditions under which involuntary interventions are justified, and not justified. Describe systemic changes that could reduce the need for involuntary treatment.