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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170979003321

Titolo

Handbook of the sociology of mental health / / edited by Carol S. Aneshensel and Jo C. Phelan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 628 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Handbooks of sociology and social research Handbook of the sociology of mental health

Handbooks of sociology and social research

Altri autori (Persone)

AneshenselCarol S

PhelanJo C

Disciplina

362.2

Soggetti

Social psychiatry

Mental illness - Social aspects

Community Psychiatry

Mental Disorders

Social psychiatry - Social aspects

Mental illness

Psychology

Psychiatry

Behavioral Sciences

Medicine

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities

Health Occupations

Occupations

Health & Biological Sciences

Psychiatry - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The sociology of mental health: surveying the field / Carol S. Aneshensel and Jo C. Phelan -- Mental illness in a multicultural context / Pauline Agbayani-Siewert, David T. Takeuchi, and Rosavinia W. Pagan -- Mental illness as psychiatric disorder / Martha Livingston Bruce -- The sociological study of mental illness: a critique and synthesis of four



perspectives / Allan V. Horwitz -- Issues in mental health assessment / Galen E. Switzer, Mary Amanda Dew, and Evelyn J. Bromet -- Analyzing associations between mental health and social circumstances / John Mirowsky -- Overview of descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders / Ronald C. Kessler and Shanyang Zhao -- Social class / Yan Yu and David R. Williams -- Race, ethnicity and culture in the sociology of mental health / Tony N. Brown [and others] -- Mental disorder in late life: exploring the influence of stress and socioeconomic status / Neal Krause -- Splitting the difference: gender, the self, and mental health / Sarah Rosenfield.

Family status and mental health / Debra Umberson and Kristi Williams -- Work and mental health / Mark Tausig.

Social stress / Blair Wheaton -- Social integration and support / R. Jay Turner and J. Blake Turner -- Social stratification and inequality / Jane D. McLeod and James M. Nonnemaker -- Self, identity, stress, and mental health / Peggy A. Thoits -- The sense of personal control: social-structural causes and emotional consequences / Catherine E. Ross and Jaya Sastry -- The stress process revisited: reflections on concepts and their interrelationships / Leonard I. Pearlin -- Social transmission in acute somatoform epidemics / William W. Eaton -- The social dynamics of responding to mental health problems: past, present, and future challenges to understanding individuals' use of services / Bernice A. Pescosolido, Carol A. Boyer, and Keri M. Lubell -- Mental health services and systems / Michael F. Polgar and Joseph P. Morrissey -- Labeling and stigma / Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan -- Impact of mental illness on the family / William R. Avison.

Mental hospitals and deinstitutionalization / George W. Dowdall -- Instituting madness: the evolution of a federal agency / Stuart A. Kirk -- Life course perspectives on mental health / Linda K. George -- Mental illness as a career: sociological perspectives / Carol S. Aneshensel.