Social perspectives in mental health: developing social models to understand and work with mental distress
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Jessica Kingsley 2005
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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
Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of social factors, such as power, abuse, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, on the causes and experiences of mental health problems. It is also considered how concepts such as risk and recovery can b
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ISBN:1846421020
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