Social Perspectives In Mental Health: Developing Social Models To Understand And Work With Mental Distress

✍ Scribed by Jerry Tew, Judy Foster

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of social factors, such as power, abuse, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, on the causes and experiences of mental health problems. It is also considered how concepts such as risk and recovery can be understood from a social perspective. Drawing on expertise from a wide range of academic, policy and practice settings as well as lived experience, this book is essential reading for practitioners, students and educators in the fields of mental health and social work.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Social Perspectives
in Mental Health:

Developing Social Models to Understand
and Work with Mental Distress......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Foreword......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1.

Core Themes of Social
Perspectives......Page 15
2.
Social Approaches
to Madness and Distress:

User Perspectives and User Knowledges......Page 34
3.
Beyond Biomedical Models:

A Perspective from Critical Psychiatry......Page 55
4.

Power Relations, Social Order
and Mental Distress......Page 73
5.

Social Capital and Mental Health......Page 92
6.
The Social/Trauma Model:

Mapping the Mental Health
Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse
and Similar Experiences......Page 114
7.
Finding a Way Forward:

A Black Perspective on Social Approaches
to Mental Health......Page 131
8.
Women’s Mental Health:

Taking Inequality into Account......Page 153
9. ‘The Sickness Label Infected Everything we Said’:
Lesbian and Gay Perspectives on Mental Distress......Page 170
10. Approaches to Risk in Mental Health:
A Multidisciplinary Discourse......Page 186
11.

Recovery from Mental Breakdown......Page 202
12.
Social Perspectives:

Towards a Framework for Practice......Page 218
CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 230
SUBJECT INDEX
......Page 232
AUTHOR INDEX
......Page 239