From psychiatric patient to citizen revisited
By: Liz Sayce
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781137360410
Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work; Discrimination against the mentally ill; Mental illness; Public opinion; Stigma (Social psychology); Mental health laws; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Description: "This book has been written to help tackle the issue of discrimination in mental health. It explores the role of mental health practitioners of all disciplines and how they can support individuals and groups to challenge and move beyond discrimination - as well as the role of people with lived experience, families and friends. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Competing Histories of Madness; title: 2. Voices of Resistance and Social Change; title: 3. Understanding the Problem, Understanding the Solution; title: 4. Activists' Models of Anti-Discrimination Work; title: 5. Social Models of Disability, Madness and Participation; title: 6. Learning from Cmpaigns, Policies and Research: What has Worked?; title: 7. Ways to a Better Future: Starting Personal; title: 8. Ending Discrimination within Mental Health Services; title: 9. Macro Changes Across Society.