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Social Perspectives in Mental Health : Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781846421020
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.2042
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Contents:
Cover -- Social Perspectives in Mental Health: Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Core Themes of Social Perspectives -- 2. Social Approaches to Madness and Distress: User Perspectives and User Knowledges -- 3. Beyond Biomedical Models: A Perspective from Critical Psychiatry -- 4. Power Relations, Social Order and Mental Distress -- 5. Social Capital and Mental Health -- 6. The Social/Trauma Model: Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Similar Experiences -- 7. Finding a Way Forward: A Black Perspective on Social Approaches to Mental Health -- 8. Women's Mental Health: Taking Inequality into Account -- 9. 'The Sickness Label Infected Everything we Said': Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Mental Distress -- 10. Approaches to Risk in Mental Health: A Multidisciplinary Discourse -- 11. Recovery from Mental Breakdown -- 12. Social Perspectives: Towards a Framework for Practice -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.
Summary: The book offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. It explores the impact of social factors, such as power, abuse, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, on the causes and experiences of mental health problems.
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Cover -- Social Perspectives in Mental Health: Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Core Themes of Social Perspectives -- 2. Social Approaches to Madness and Distress: User Perspectives and User Knowledges -- 3. Beyond Biomedical Models: A Perspective from Critical Psychiatry -- 4. Power Relations, Social Order and Mental Distress -- 5. Social Capital and Mental Health -- 6. The Social/Trauma Model: Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Similar Experiences -- 7. Finding a Way Forward: A Black Perspective on Social Approaches to Mental Health -- 8. Women's Mental Health: Taking Inequality into Account -- 9. 'The Sickness Label Infected Everything we Said': Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Mental Distress -- 10. Approaches to Risk in Mental Health: A Multidisciplinary Discourse -- 11. Recovery from Mental Breakdown -- 12. Social Perspectives: Towards a Framework for Practice -- CONTRIBUTORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.

The book offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. It explores the impact of social factors, such as power, abuse, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, on the causes and experiences of mental health problems.

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