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About this book
Suitable for mental health service users, their carers, students and mental health professionals, this book presents an introduction to the causes of mental health problems. The causes of mental health problems are often more complicated than we would like. This book presents straightforward summaries of the history, theories and research about the various possible causes.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series introduction
- 1 Our beliefs and values
- 2 A brief history of beliefs about the causes of human distress
- 3 The 20th century and beyond: The illness model
- 4 Can we understand causes through diagnoses and labels?
- 5 Public opinion: Depression is caused by depressing things happening
- 6 Are the public right? What the research says about the causes of mental health problems
- 7 Psychological theories: How events operate on us to create problems
- 8 An example of putting things together: Formulating depression
- 9 Keep thinking (and feeling) about the causes of mental health problems
- Endnotes
- Further Reading
- Subject index
- Name index
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