| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 547 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Mental health and mental disorder in social context. Limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics / Angus Clarke -- Challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys / Jerome C. Wakefield, Mark F. Schmitz -- Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self / Benedikt Rogge -- Sociological aspects of the emotions / Gillian Bendelow -- Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK / James Nazroo, Karen Iley -- Gender matters : differences in depression between women and men / Jane M. Ussher -- Diagnosis of depression in an international context / Renata Kokanovic -- Stressors and experienced stress / Susan Roxburgh -- Religious beliefs and mental health : applications and extensions of the stress process model / Scott Schieman -- Children, culture, and mental illness : public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems / Brea Perry, Bernice A. Pescosolido -- Stigma and mental disorder / Graham Scambler -- Medicalization and mental health : the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters / Sigrun Olafsdottir -- Danger and diagnosed mental disorder / David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers -- Clinical and policy topics. Biological explanations for and responses to madness / Philip Thomas -- Psychology of psychosis / Richard Bentall -- Sociological aspects of personality disorder / Nick Manning -- Sociological aspects of substance misuse / Michael Bloor, Alison Munro -- Social aspects of psychotropic medication / David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers, Jonathan Gabe -- Common mental health problems : primary care and health inequalities in the UK / Carolyn Chew-Graham -- Promoting mental health / Helen Herman -- Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization / Andrew Scull -- Action for change in the UK : thirty years of the user/survivor movement / Peter Campbell, Diana Rose -- Recovery in mental illness : the roots, meanings, and implementations of a "new" services movement / Ann McCranie -- Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion : a UK perspective / Jenny Secker -- Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes / Bernice A. Pescosolido. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
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GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Mental health -- Case studies.
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Mental health -- Social aspects.
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Mental illness -- Case studies.
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Mental Health.
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Mental Disorders.
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Mental Health Services.
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| Added Author |
Pilgrim, David, 1950-
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Pescosolido, Bernice A., editor.
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Rogers, Anne, editor.
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| Note |
Handbook of mental health and illness |
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Mental health and illness |
| Other Form: |
Print version: SAGE handbook of mental health and illness. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2011 9781847873828 (DLC) 2010927890 (OCoLC)697776631 |
| ISBN |
9781446209684 electronic bk |
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1446209687 electronic bk |
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9781446200988 ebook |
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1446200981 ebook |
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