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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823740803321

Titolo

Principles of social psychiatry / / editors, Craig Morgan and Dinesh Bhugra

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-282-55061-6

9786612550614

0-470-68421-6

0-470-68422-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (604 p.)

Classificazione

44.91

Altri autori (Persone)

MorganCraig <1971->

BhugraDinesh

Disciplina

616.89

Soggetti

Social psychiatry

Community psychiatry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Principles of Social Psychiatry; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface: Social psychiatry: alive and kicking; Part One: Perspectives and methods; 1 The historical development of social psychiatry; 2 Why psychiatry has to be social; 3 Categories and continuums; 4 Social, biological and personal constructions of mental illness; 5 Social science perspectives: a failure of the sociological imagination; 6 Concepts and challenges in capturing dynamics of the wider social environment; 7 Qualitative research methods; Part Two: Components of the social world

8 The social epidemiology of mental disorder9 Families and psychosis; 10 Culture and its influence on diagnosis and management; 11 Culture and identity; 12 Globalization and psychiatry; 13 Trauma and disasters in social and cultural context; Part Three: Social determinants; 14 Fundamental social causes of health inequalities; 15 The sociodevelopmental origins of psychosis; 16 Depression; 17 Common mental disorders; 18 Suicide; 19 Personality disorder; 20 Drug use, drug problems and drug addiction: social influences and social responses; 21 Eating disorders



22 Social factors that influence child mental health23 Social determinants of late life disorders; Part Four: Social consequences and responses; 24 Responses to the onset of mental health problems: issues and findings from research on illness behaviour and the use of health services; 25 Gender and reproductive health; 26 Stigma and discrimination; 27 Taking inequality's measure: poverty, displacement, unemployment and mental health; 28 Health economics and psychiatry: the pursuit of efficiency; Part Five: Social interventions; 29 Team structures in community mental health; 30 Prevention

31 Principles of social intervention32 Social interventions for psychosis; 33 Social management of common mental disorders; 34 Problem-solving therapy for people with personality disorders; 35 Social support; 36 Modern social networking and mental health; 37 The psychiatric-child protection interface: research to inform practice; Part Six: Global mental health; 38 Mental health in Europe: learning from differences; 39 East meets west: current mental health burdens in greater China; 40 Social psychiatry in India; 41 Social psychiatry in Africa: Evidence and Challenges

42 Social psychiatry in the AmericasEpilogue; 43 Where next for social psychiatry?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Social psychiatry is concerned with the effects of the social environment on the mental health of the individual, and with the effects of the person with a mental disorder on his/her social environment. The field encompasses social interventions, prevention and the promotion of mental health. This new edition of Principles of Social Psychiatry provides a broad overview of current thinking in this expanding field and will be a source of ideas both in research and for the management of mental disorder. It opens by putting social psychiatry in perspective, within both psychiatry and the so