A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health: Social Contexts, Theories, and Systems
ISBN: 9780521728911 | 0521728916
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 11/16/2009
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The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health, with chapters written by leading scholars and researchers in their fields. The volume presents an overview of historical, social, and institutional frameworks for understanding mental health and illness.
A comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health, with chapters written by leading scholars and researchers in their fields.
A comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health, with chapters written by leading scholars and researchers in their fields.
| Introduction to Part I: approaches to mental health and illness | |
| An overview of sociological perspectives on the definitions, causes, and responses to mental health and illness | |
| The measurement of mental disorder | |
| The prevalence of mental illness | |
| Biological approaches to psychiatric disorders: a sociological approach | |
| Psychological approaches to mental illness | |
| Sociological approac... MORE | |
| Viewing mental health from the complete state paradigm | |
| Mental health systems in cross-cultural context | |
| Introduction to Part II: the social context of mental health and illness | |
| Stressors, stress, and distress | |
| Social support and mental health | |
| Work and unemployment as stressors | |
| Socio-economic stratification and mental disorder | |
| Gender and mental health: do males and females have different amounts or types of problems? | |
| Race and mental health: patterns and challenges | |
| African American women and mental well-being: the triangulation of race, gender, and socioeconomic status | |
| Marital status and mental health | |
| Stress and distress in childhood and adolescence | |
| Psychopathology and risky sexual behaviors among black adolescents | |
| Well-being across the life course | |
| Mental health and terrorism | |
| Introduction to Part III: mental health systems and policy | |
| Understandng the context and dynamic processes of mental health treatment | |
| Cultural diversity and mental health treatment | |
| The mental health consumers/survivors movement in the US | |
| Mental illness and the criminal justice system Virginia | |
| Mental health in organizations and systems | |
| Integrating service delivery systems for persons with severe mental illness | |
| Consequences of managed care for mental health care providers | |
| Mental health and the changing context of HIV | |
| Labelling and stigma | |
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