The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness
By: edited by David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers, and Bernice Pescosolido
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9781847873828
Subjects: Mental illness; Mental health; Case studies; Social aspects; Mental Disorders; Mental Health; Mental Health Services
Other titles: Handbook of mental health and illness; Mental health and illness
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section 1 Mental health and mental disorder in social context; title: The limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics  -- Angus Clarke; title: The challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys  -- Jerome C. Wakefield -- and -- Mark F. Schmitz; title: Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self  -- Benedikt Rogge; title: Sociological aspects of the emotions  -- Gillian Bendelow; title: Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK  -- James Nazroo -- and -- Karen Iley; title: Gender matters: differences in depression between women and men  -- Jane M. Ussher; title: The diagnosis of depression in an international context  -- Renata Kokanovic; title: Stressors and experienced stress  -- Susan Roxburgh; title: Religious beliefs and mental health: applications and extensions of the stress process model  -- Scott Schieman; title: Children, culture, and mental illness: public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems  -- Brea Perry -- and -- Bernice A. Pescosolido; title: Stigma and mental disorder  -- Graham Scambler; title: Medicalization and mental health: the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters  -- Sigrun Olafsdottir; title: Danger and diagnosed mental disorder  -- David Pilgrim -- and -- Anne Rogers -- Section 2 Clinical and policy topics; title: Biological explanations for and responses to madness  -- Philip Thomas; title: The psychology of psychosis  -- Richard Bentall; title: Sociological aspects of personality disorder  -- Nick Manning; title: Sociological aspects of substance misuse  -- Michael Bloor -- and -- Alison Munro; title: Social aspects of psychotropic medication  -- David Pilgrim, -- Anne Rogers -- and -- Jonathan Gabe; title: Common mental health problems: primary care and health inequalities in the UK  -- Carolyn Chew-Graham; title: Promoting mental health  -- Helen Herman; title: Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization  -- Andrew Scull; title: Action for change in the UK: thirty years of the user/survivor movement  -- Peter Campbell -- and -- Diana Rose; title: Recovery in mental illness: the roots, meanings, and implementations of a "new" services movement  -- Ann McCranie; title: Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion: a UK perspective  -- Jenny Secker; title: Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes -- Bernice A. Pescosolido.