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Key concepts in mental health
- Author:
- PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 216p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
Drawing together perspectives from sociology, psychiatry, psychology and ethics, this book aims to cover the central concepts and debates shaping contemporary views about mental health and illness. It covers theories and understandings of mental health and mental health problems, the structure and organisation of mental health service delivery, and the social context of mental health. It is designed for student and trainee health professionals, including clinical psychologists, social workers, nurses, counsellors and psychotherapists.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- ROGERS Anne, PILGRIM David
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 327p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
- Edition:
- 4th ed.
This fourth edition updates existing chapters and contains a new chapter entitled ‘public health and the pursuit of happiness’ reflecting the recent focus on the creation of mentally healthy societies. The editors aim to further dismantle professional pretensions surrounding the mastery of mental health problems by focusing on the social, economic and political determinants of mental well-being and highlighting the recent and considerable changes in sociology, social psychiatry, policy analysis and therapeutic law. Chapters cover: Perspectives on mental health, including those from psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychology; Stigma revisited and lay representations of mental health problems; Social class and mental health; Women and men; Race and ethnicity; Age and ageing; Mental health professions; Treatment of people with mental health problems; Organisation of mental health work; Psychiatry and legal control; and Users of mental health services.