This book offers the first comprehensive presentation of the sociology of mental health and illness, including original, contemporary contributions by experts in the relevant aspects of the field. Divided into three sections, the chapters cover the general perspectives in the field, the social determinants of mental health, and current policy areas affecting mental health services. A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health is designed for classroom use in sociology, social work, human relations, human services, and psychology. With its useful definitions, overview of the historical, social, and institutional frameworks for understanding mental health and illness, and nontechnical style, the text is suitable for advanced undergraduate or lower level graduate students.
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"A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health is a landmark accomplishment, bringing together the leading researchers in the field to provide a conprehensive review of the state-of-the-art knowledge on the sociology of mental health and mental disorders...the text will find a readership across the mental health disciplines and encourage a new generation of mental health researchers investigating the social origins of mental disorders and their relationship to biological and psychological processes." Mental Health Sevices Research Journal
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This book offers the first comprehensive presentation of the sociology of mental health and illness, including original, contemporary contributions by experts in the relevant aspects of the field. Divided into three sections, the chapters cover the general perspectives in the field, the social determinants of mental health, and current policy areas affecting mental health services. The Sociology of Mental Health and Illness is designed for classroom use in sociology, social work, human relations, human services, and psychology. With its useful definitions, overview of the historical, social, and institutional frameworks for understanding mental health and illness, and non-technical style, the text is suitable for advanced undergraduate or lower level graduate students.
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The sociology of mental health and illness is a very diverse field that encompasses many different approaches to its subject matter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partial care organizations, sociobehavioral model, multiservice mental health organizations, macro stressors, most upsetting trauma, mental health policy making, freestanding psychiatric outpatient clinics, mental health consumer movement, true prevalence studies, separate psychiatric services, institutional transmission, patient care episodes, local mental health authorities, nonfederal general hospitals, kin composition, structural strain theory, mental illness labeling, partial care programs, alcohol abuse disorder, clinical prevalence, adoptee studies, ethnic match, psychiatric rehabilitation programs, managed behavioral health care, stress continuum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African Americans, New York, Asian Americans, New Haven, Los Angeles, American Indians, American Psychiatric Association, Epidemiologic Catchment Area, National Comorbidity Survey, National Institute of Mental Health, Puerto Ricans, American Medical Association, Community Support Program, Inpatient Outpatient Partial, Bureau of the Census, Diagnostic Interview Schedule, Mexican Americans, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Native Americans, North African, Stress Measurement Study, Unique Environment, United Kingdom, World Health Organization New!
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The sociology of mental health and illness is a very diverse field that encompasses many different approaches to its subject matter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partial care organizations, sociobehavioral model, multiservice mental health organizations, macro stressors, most upsetting trauma, mental health policy making, freestanding psychiatric outpatient clinics, mental health consumer movement, true prevalence studies, separate psychiatric services, institutional transmission, patient care episodes, local mental health authorities, nonfederal general hospitals, kin composition, structural strain theory, mental illness labeling, partial care programs, alcohol abuse disorder, clinical prevalence, adoptee studies, ethnic match, psychiatric rehabilitation programs, managed behavioral health care, stress continuum Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, African Americans, New York, Asian Americans, New Haven, Los Angeles, American Indians, American Psychiatric Association, Epidemiologic Catchment Area, National Comorbidity Survey, National Institute of Mental Health, Puerto Ricans, American Medical Association, Community Support Program, Inpatient Outpatient Partial, Bureau of the Census, Diagnostic Interview Schedule, Mexican Americans, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Native Americans, North African, Stress Measurement Study, Unique Environment, United Kingdom, World Health Organization New!
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- The Logic of Social Control by A.V. Horwitz in Front Matter, and Back Cover
- Composite International Diagnostic Interview 1.1 (CIDI) Researcher's Manual by APA on page 61, and Back Matter
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Revised Edition (Critical Library, Viking) by Ken Kesey on page 380
- Crimes of Violence by Mentally Abnormal Offenders: A psychiatric and epidemiological study in the Federal German Republic by H. Häfner in Back Matter
- Work in America: Report of a Special Task Force to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by U.S. Department of Heath Education and Welfare in Back Matter
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- Creating Mental Illness by Allan V. Horwitz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Is It Me or My Meds?: Living with Antidepressants by David A. Karp in Back Matter
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