Social Perspectives in Mental Health
eBook - ePub

Social Perspectives in Mental Health

Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Social Perspectives in Mental Health

Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress

About this book

Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of social factors, such as power, abuse, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, on the causes and experiences of mental health problems. It is also considered how concepts such as risk and recovery can be understood from a social perspective.

Drawing on expertise from a wide range of academic, policy and practice settings as well as lived experience, this book is essential reading for practitioners, students and educators in the fields of mental health and social work.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Of Related Interest
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Core Themes of Social Perspectives
  9. 2. Social Approaches to Madness and Distress: User Perspectives and User Knowledges
  10. 3. Beyond Biomedical Models: A Perspective from Critical Psychiatry
  11. 4. Power Relations, Social Order and Mental Distress
  12. 5. Social Capital and Mental Health
  13. 6. The Social/Trauma Model: Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Similar Experiences
  14. 7. Finding a Way Forward: A Black Perspective on Social Approaches to Mental Health
  15. 8. Women’s Mental Health: Taking Inequality into Account
  16. 9. ‘The Sickness Label Infected Everything we Said’: Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Mental Distress
  17. 10. Approaches to Risk in Mental Health: A Multidisciplinary Discourse
  18. 11. Recovery from Mental Breakdown
  19. 12. Social Perspectives: Towards a Framework for Practice
  20. Contributors
  21. Subject Index
  22. Author Index