Mental Health At The Crossroads
Subtitle: The Promise Of The Psychosocial Approach
Contributors: Shulamit Ramon (Editor); Janet E. Williams (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: September 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780754641919
Subjects: Psychiatry; Social welfare & social services; Social work; Mental health policy; Medical History & Records; Medical; Psychology; Social Psychology; Mental health services; Mental Illness; Mental Health; Cross-cultural studies; Methodology
First sentence: This book was our response and challenge to the enduring status and domination of a bio-medical understanding and delivery of mental health services which, to quote from Roberto Mezzina's chapter, appears to many stakeholders 'superseded and anachronistic'.