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The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness / edited by David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers, and Bernice Pescosolido.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, 2011.Description: xviii, 547 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781847873828 (hbk.)
  • 1847873820 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Handbook of mental health and illness
  • Mental health and illness
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.19689 23 PIL
NLM classification:
  • 2011 A-755
  • WM 105
Contents:
The limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics The challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self Sociological aspects of the emotions Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK Gender matters: differences in depression between women and men The diagnosis of depression in an international context Stressors and experienced stress Religious beliefs and mental health: applications and extensions of the stress process model Children, culture, and mental illness: public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems Stigma and mental disorder Medicalization and mental health: the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters Danger and diagnosed mental disorder Biological explanations for and responses to madness The psychology of psychosis Sociological aspects of personality disorder Sociological aspects of substance misuse Social aspects of psychotropic medication Common mental health problems: primary care and health inequalities in the UK Promoting mental health Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization Action for change in the UK: thirty years of the user/survivor movement Recovery in mental illness: the roots, meanings, and implementations of a "new" services movement Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion: a UK perspective Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes
Section 1 Mental health and mental disorder in social context -- Angus Clarke -- Jerome C. Wakefield and Mark F. Schmitz -- Benedikt Rogge -- Gillian Bendelow -- James Nazroo and Karen Iley -- Jane M. Ussher -- Renata Kokanovic -- Susan Roxburgh -- Scott Schieman -- Brea Perry and Bernice A. Pescosolido -- Graham Scambler -- Sigrun Olafsdottir -- David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers -- Section 2 Clinical and policy topics -- Philip Thomas -- Richard Bentall -- Nick Manning -- Michael Bloor and Alison Munro -- David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Jonathan Gabe -- Carolyn Chew-Graham -- Helen Herman -- Andrew Scull -- Peter Campbell and Diana Rose -- Ann McCranie -- Jenny Secker -- Bernice A. Pescosolido.
Summary: This title 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 secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.
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The limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics The challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self Sociological aspects of the emotions Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK Gender matters: differences in depression between women and men The diagnosis of depression in an international context Stressors and experienced stress Religious beliefs and mental health: applications and extensions of the stress process model Children, culture, and mental illness: public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems Stigma and mental disorder Medicalization and mental health: the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters Danger and diagnosed mental disorder Biological explanations for and responses to madness The psychology of psychosis Sociological aspects of personality disorder Sociological aspects of substance misuse Social aspects of psychotropic medication Common mental health problems: primary care and health inequalities in the UK Promoting mental health Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization Action for change in the UK: thirty years of the user/survivor movement Recovery in mental illness: the roots, meanings, and implementations of a "new" services movement Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion: a UK perspective Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes

This title 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 secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1 Mental health and mental disorder in social context -- Angus Clarke -- Jerome C. Wakefield and Mark F. Schmitz -- Benedikt Rogge -- Gillian Bendelow -- James Nazroo and Karen Iley -- Jane M. Ussher -- Renata Kokanovic -- Susan Roxburgh -- Scott Schieman -- Brea Perry and Bernice A. Pescosolido -- Graham Scambler -- Sigrun Olafsdottir -- David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers -- Section 2 Clinical and policy topics -- Philip Thomas -- Richard Bentall -- Nick Manning -- Michael Bloor and Alison Munro -- David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Jonathan Gabe -- Carolyn Chew-Graham -- Helen Herman -- Andrew Scull -- Peter Campbell and Diana Rose -- Ann McCranie -- Jenny Secker -- Bernice A. Pescosolido.

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