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The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness
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The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness
About this book
The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness is a landmark volume, which integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and personal and social functioning and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.
Unique features include:
- a broad and inclusive view of the field, providing depth and breadth for the reader
- a team of international, multi-disciplinary editors and contributors, and
- discussion of the many of the unresolved debates in the field about constructs and causes.
The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate students, academics and researchers studying mental health in disciplines such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing and sociology.
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Table of contents
- COVER
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- List of Editors
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- SECTION I
- Editors’ Introduction
- 1.The Limits to Psychiatric and Behavioural Genetics
- 2 The Challenge of Measurementof Mental Disorder in Community Surveys
- 3 Mental Health, Positive Psychology and the Sociology of the Self
- 4 Sociological Aspects of the Emotions
- 5. Ethnicity, Race and Mental Disorder in the UK
- 6. Gender Matters:Differences in Depression between Women and Men
- 7. The Diagnosis of Depression in an International Context
- 8. Stressors and Experienced Stress
- 9. Religious Beliefs and Mental Health: Applications and Extensions of the Stress Process Model
- 10. Children, Culture and Mental Illness: Public Knowledge and Stigma Toward Childhood Problems
- 11. Stigma and Mental Disorder
- 12.Medicalization and Mental Health: The Critique of Medical Expansion, and a Consideration of How Markets, National States, and Citizens Matter
- 13. Danger and Diagnosed Mental Disorder
- SECTION 2 Clinical and Policy Topics
- Editors’ Introduction
- 14. Biological Explanations for and Responses to Madness
- 15. The Psychology of Psychosis
- 16. Sociological Aspects of Personality Disorder
- 17. Sociological Aspects of Substance Misuse
- 18. Social Aspects of Psychotropic Medication
- 19. Common Mental Health Problems: Primary Care and Health Inequalities in the UK
- 20. Promoting Mental Health
- 21.Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization
- 22. Action for Change in the UK:Thirty Years of the User/Survivor Movement
- 23. Recovery in Mental Illness:The Roots, Meanings,and Implementations of a“New” Services Movement
- 24. Mental Health Problems, Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion: A UK Perspective
- 25.Social Network Influence inMental Health and Illness, Service Use and Settings,and Treatment Outcomes
- Index