Mental health at the crossroads: the promise of the psychosocial approach
- Editors:
- RAMON Shulamit, WILLIAMS Janet E., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 235p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
This book is a challenge to the enduring status and domination of bio-medical approaches in mental health services. Contributors from four continents argue that this domination, along with modernization and multidisciplinary work, will not improve people's lives unless social and psychological perspectives are appreciated and integrated. This implies new forms of relationships and social arrangements. The book presents an analysis of the psychosocial approach as it resonates across the discipline divide, considering the past and future development. It is written from the perspectives of service users and carers, managers, practitioners, educators, researchers and policy makers, illustrated with case studies from Australia, Brazil, Italy, UK and the USA. This book presents an alternative approach to conventional thinking in mental health, providing perspectives, grounded in theory with practice examples, in order to influence the current agenda and change practice.
- Subject terms:
- mental health problems, psychosocial approach;
- Content type:
- research
- Location(s):
- Brazil, Australia, Italy, United States
- ISBN print:
- 0 7546 4191 0