Mental Health Resilience
eBook - ePub

Mental Health Resilience

The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mental Health Resilience

The Social Context of Coping with Mental Illness

About this book

Examines the forms of support, resources, and opportunities a person with mental illness requires to have the resilience needed for mental health recovery.

While resilience is traditionally understood as an inner trait that individuals possess inside themselves, Mental Health Resilience argues that resilience should be seen as the product of social factors, where other individuals and institutions provide the resources, opportunities, and support that enable resilience. Resilience is also partly a matter of justice, as people can only be resilient in addressing their vulnerabilities when they are given adequate resources and opportunities, and in just ways. Seen in this light, Abigail Gosselin examines what a person who has mental illness needs to have the resilience required for mental health recovery and for coping with life challenges in general. With its focus on the social and political conditions of resilience, Mental Health Resilience will appeal to fields such as social philosophy, feminist political philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, medical humanities, bioethics, and disability studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 Enabling Mental Health Resilience
  8. Chapter 2 Vulnerabilities of Mental Illness
  9. Chapter 3 Inner Resources
  10. Chapter 4 Social Support
  11. Chapter 5 Resources for Meeting People’s Needs
  12. Chapter 6 Resources for Social Justice
  13. Chapter 7 Opportunities for Meaning
  14. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover