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Author : Joan Busfield
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Total Pages : 719 pages
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Download or read book Special Issue: Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health written by Joan Busfield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Busfield
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631221852
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health written by Joan Busfield and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health is a collection of original papers introducing new ways of thinking sociologically about the terrain of mental health. There are more general papers about mental health and mental health policy and papers about specific types of mental illness and particular policy issues such as dangerousness.
Author : Gonzalo Araoz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004373950
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Madness: Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Reflections written by Gonzalo Araoz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol S. Aneshensel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387325166
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health written by Carol S. Aneshensel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members, and shapes the lives of those identified as mentally ill. Experts in the sociology of mental health discuss in depth the interface between society and the inward experiences of its members.
Author : Carol S. Aneshensel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400742762
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health written by Carol S. Aneshensel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a mental illness The award-winning Handbook is distinctive in its focus on how the organization and functioning of society influences the occurrence of mental disorder and its consequences. A core issue that runs throughout the text concerns the differential distribution of mental illness across various social strata, defined by status characteristics such as gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age. The contributions to this volume shed light on the social, cultural, and economic factors that explain why some social groups have an elevated risk of disorder. They also address the social repercussions of mental disorder for individuals, including stigmatization within the larger society, and for their families and social networks. The second edition of this seminal volume includes substantial updates to previous chapters, as well as seven new chapters on: -The Individual’s Experience of Mental Illness.--The Medicalization of Mental Illness.---Age, Aging, and Mental Health.- -Religion and Mental Health.- -Neighborhoods and Mental Health.- -Mental Health and the Law—and Public Beliefs about Mental Illness.
Author : Allen Furr
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1071815504
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness written by Allen Furr and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness explains sociology’s key contributions to our understanding of mental health, and serves as a strong counterpoint to the medical approach to the subject. Using both micro and macro-level theories, particularly social constructionism, the text shows the subjective nature of mental illness and systems of diagnosis and treatment. It also emphasizes how social conditions and relationships create life pathways toward mental health and psychological struggles, and uses the concept of "patient career" to describe how individuals interact with mental health professionals. In addition, the text explores the connections between mental health and social problems such as terrorism, substance abuse, criminal violence, suicide, and domestic violence.
Author : Anne Rogers
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0335240372
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)
Download or read book A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness written by Anne Rogers and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness is an intellectual 'tour de force'. Rogers and Pilgrim cogently dismantle professional pretensions towards mastery of mental illness, and in their place construct compelling arguments for the need to focus on the social, economic and political determinants of mental well-being." Professor Chris Dowrick, University of Liverpool, UK How do we understand mental health problems and the concept of happiness in their social context? How have sociologists theorized and researched mental health and illness? A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major areas of mental health and illness and helps students to develop a critical approach to the subject. This new edition is fully updated, taking into consideration changes in the areas of sociology, social psychiatry and policy analysis and changes to policy and therapeutic law. A new chapter entitled 'public mental health and the pursuit of happiness', reflects the recent focus on the creation of mentally healthy societies. A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness 4/e is a key teaching and learning resource for undergraduates and postgraduates studying a range of medical sociology and health-related courses, as well as trainee mental health workers in the fields of social work, nursing, clinical psychology and psychiatry.
Author : John Monahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190286016
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Risk Assessment written by John Monahan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians' unaided assessments of "dangerousness" are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: The MacArthur Study of Mental Disorder and Violence tells the story of a pioneering investigation that challenges preconceptions about the frequency and nature of violence among persons with mental disorders, and suggests an innovative approach to predicting its occurrence. The authors of this massive project -- the largest ever undertaken on the topic -- demonstrate how clinicians can use a "decision tree" to identify groups of patients at very low and very high risk for violence. This dramatic new finding, and its implications for the every day clinical practice of risk assessment and risk management, is thoroughly described in this remarkable and long-anticipated volume. Taken to heart, its message will change the way clinicians, judges, and others who must deal with persons who are mentally ill and may be violent will do their work.
Author : Robert J. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331907797X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Sociology of Mental Health written by Robert J. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an overview of mental health research conducted by sociologists. It discusses dominant themes such as stress, the community and mental life, family structure, social relations and recovery. The unique contribution of sociology to the study of mental health has a long history stretching from the very foundations of modern sociology. Yet it was only twenty years ago that the Section on Sociology of Mental Health of the American Sociological Association was formed largely in response to a burgeoning rise in the sum and significance of research in the field. Today the section is a large and vibrant one with its own journal, Society and Mental Health. This book explores several of the themes that have occurred during that period, providing both perspectives of the past and prospects for the future. The volume is timely, following closely the 20th anniversary of the section’s formation. Its coverage of key issues and its advancement of the scholarly debates on these issues will prove valuable to students and senior scholars alike.
Author : William R. Avison
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387363203
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Mental Health, Social Mirror written by William R. Avison and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologists often view research on mental health as peripheral to the real work of the discipline. This volume contains essays that reassert the importance of mental health research in sociology. Experts in the field articulate the contributions that mental health research has made, and can make, in resolving key theoretical and empirical debates. The contributions provide answers to critical questions regarding the social origins of--and social responses to--mental illness.
Author : Bernard J. Gallagher
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Mental Illness written by Bernard J. Gallagher and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane D. McLeod
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Mental Illness written by Jane D. McLeod and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sociology of Mental Illness is a comprehensive collection of readings designed to help students develop a nuanced and sophisticated appreciation of the most important, heated--and fascinating--controversies in the field. Drawing primarily from sociological sources, the text features both classical and contemporary selections that cover the full range of sociological topics, perspectives, and debates, including the social construction of mental illness, the social origins of mental illness, and contemporary mental health treatment. This rich, varied assortment gives students a "roadmap" to the evolution and development of sociological research over time and insight into key controversies in the field. Selections include such classical readings as Scheff's original statement of labeling theory, contemporary reports on the prevalence of mental illness in countries around the world, and recent analyses of the changing treatment system. The readings are organized progressively in order to help students recognize the dynamic character of mental health research and the important role that controversies play in advancements in the field; this organization also gives students the tools they need to formulate their own views and opinions on crucial matters. A versatile, engaging text, The Sociology of Mental Illness is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of mental illness.
Author : Andrew Scull
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483346331
Total Pages : 1161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness written by Andrew Scull and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 1161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A to Z Guide looks at recent reports that suggest an astonishing rise in mental illness and considers such questions as: Are there truly more mentally ill people now or are there just more people being diagnosed and treated? What are the roles of economics and the pharmacological industry in this controversy? At the core of what is going on with mental illness in America and around the world, the editors suggest, is cultural sociology: How differing cultures treat mental illness and, in turn, how mental health patients are affected by the culture. In this illuminating multidisciplinary reference, expert scholars explore the culture of mental illness from the non-clinical perspectives of sociology, history, psychology, epidemiology, economics, public health policy, and finally, the mental health patients themselves. Key themes include Cultural Comparisons of Mental Health Disorders; Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness Around the World; Economics; Epidemiology; Mental Health Practitioners; Non-Drug Treatments; Patient, the Psychiatry, and Psychology; Psychiatry and Space; Psychopharmacology; Public Policy; Social History; and Sociology. Key Features This two-volume A-Z work, available in both print and electronic formats, includes close to 400 articles by renowned experts in their respective fields. An Introduction, a thematic Reader’s Guide, a Glossary, and a Resource Guide to Key Books, Journals, and Associations and their web sites enhance this invaluable reference. A chronology places the cultural sociology of mental illness in historical context. 150 photos bring concepts to life. The range and scope of this Encyclopedia is vivid testimony to the intellectual vitality of the field and will make a useful contribution to the next generation of sociological research on the cultural sociology of mental illness.
Author : Edward W. Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351901214
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Self-Made Madness written by Edward W. Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary book lies in the general areas of forensic psychiatry/psychology, sociology, jurisprudence, criminal law and criminology. It questions traditional assumptions about illness and mental disorder, and deals with the controversial notion that mental disorders (and possibly other 'illnesses') may be to varying extents the fault of the 'sufferer'. It examines how the law can take into account such 'culpable' notions of mental disorder in determining criminal responsibility. This culpability for the defense-causing condition (or 'responsibility for level of criminal responsibility') is called 'meta-responsibility'. The book is divided into two parts. The first section discusses theoretical issues, such as the manner in which traditional illness models relate to meta-responsibility; the insanity defence and other mental condition defences; the relationship of clinical issues such as medication non-compliance and insight to meta-responsibility and the counterfactual notion that consideration of the possible voluntary origins of mental disorder may benefit the criminal and non-criminal mentally disordered. The second section of the book presents a case vignette experiment of mock jurors, examining the effect of a 'meta-responsibility insanity test'.
Author : Joan Busfield
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745649068
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Mental Illness written by Joan Busfield and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-11-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author evaluates critiques of the concept of mental illness and of the way its expanding boundaries now define a far wider range of mental states, experiences and activities as pathological. Arguing that these boundaries need to be restricted, the author contends that many of the phenomena identified as mental illness are normal reactions to life's difficulties and that, while individuals may need support, it is not appropriate or helpful for such phenomena to be treated as indicative of mental disorder. Other important topics covered include the way mental illness is measured, its distribution across populations and over time, and the different types of care provided for those with identified mental illness.
Author : Samuel Kirson Weinberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Sociology of Mental Disorders written by Samuel Kirson Weinberg and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
