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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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SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness
2010, SAGE Publications, Limited
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Table of Contents
Section 1 Mental health and mental disorder in social context
The limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics -- Angus Clarke
The challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys -- Jerome C. Wakefield -- and -- Mark F. Schmitz
Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self -- Benedikt Rogge
Sociological aspects of the emotions -- Gillian Bendelow
Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK -- James Nazroo -- and -- Karen Iley
Gender matters: differences in depression between women and men -- Jane M. Ussher
The diagnosis of depression in an international context -- Renata Kokanovic
Stressors and experienced stress -- Susan Roxburgh
Religious beliefs and mental health: applications and extensions of the stress process model -- Scott Schieman
Children, culture, and mental illness: public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems -- Brea Perry -- and -- Bernice A. Pescosolido
Stigma and mental disorder -- Graham Scambler
Medicalization and mental health: the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters -- Sigrun Olafsdottir
Danger and diagnosed mental disorder -- David Pilgrim -- and -- Anne Rogers -- Section 2 Clinical and policy topics
Biological explanations for and responses to madness -- Philip Thomas
The psychology of psychosis -- Richard Bentall
Sociological aspects of personality disorder -- Nick Manning
Sociological aspects of substance misuse -- Michael Bloor -- and -- Alison Munro
Social aspects of psychotropic medication -- David Pilgrim, -- Anne Rogers -- and -- Jonathan Gabe
Common mental health problems: primary care and health inequalities in the UK -- Carolyn Chew-Graham
Promoting mental health -- Helen Herman
Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization -- Andrew Scull
Action for change in the UK: thirty years of the user/survivor movement -- Peter Campbell -- and -- Diana Rose
Recovery in mental illness: the roots, meanings, and implementations of a "new" services movement -- Ann McCranie
Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion: a UK perspective -- Jenny Secker
Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes -- Bernice A. Pescosolido.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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