The note of a study day which brought together different social perspectives to better understand mental distress and the social and personal issues that may connect with it. It looks models and frameworks to help move beyond just treating symptoms, providing frameworks that may be useful in giving meaning to experience, and enabling and supporting recovery. Specific areas discussed include:
(Edited publisher abstract)
The note of a study day which brought together different social perspectives to better understand mental distress and the social and personal issues that may connect with it. It looks models and frameworks to help move beyond just treating symptoms, providing frameworks that may be useful in giving meaning to experience, and enabling and supporting recovery. Specific areas discussed include: the social/trauma model; a Black perspective on social model approaches to mental health services; women: a social inequalities perspective; and Lesbian and gay perspectives on mental distress.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
models, mental health problems, recovery, black and minority ethnic people, social model, traumas, lesbians, gay men;