TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pilgrim,David
AU  - Pescosolido,Bernice A.
AU  - Rogers,Anne
TI  - The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness
SN  - 9781847873828 (hbk.)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Mental disorders
KW  - Mental health services
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1 Mental health and mental disorder in social context --; The limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics; Angus Clarke --; The challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys; Jerome C. Wakefield; and; Mark F. Schmitz --; Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self; Benedikt Rogge --; Sociological aspects of the emotions; Gillian Bendelow --; Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK; James Nazroo; and; Karen Iley --; Gender matters: differences in depression between women and men; Jane M. Ussher --; The diagnosis of depression in an international context; Renata Kokanovic --; Stressors and experienced stress; Susan Roxburgh --; Religious beliefs and mental health: applications and extensions of the stress process model; Scott Schieman --; Children, culture, and mental illness: public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems; Brea Perry; and; Bernice A. Pescosolido --; Stigma and mental disorder; Graham Scambler --; Medicalization and mental health: the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters; Sigrun Olafsdottir --; Danger and diagnosed mental disorder; David Pilgrim; and; Anne Rogers --; Section 2 Clinical and policy topics --; Biological explanations for and responses to madness; Philip Thomas --; The psychology of psychosis; Richard Bentall --; Sociological aspects of personality disorder; Nick Manning --; Sociological aspects of substance misuse; Michael Bloor; and; Alison Munro --; Social aspects of psychotropic medication; David Pilgrim; Anne Rogers; and; Jonathan Gabe --; Common mental health problems: primary care and health inequalities in the UK; Carolyn Chew-Graham --; Promoting mental health; Helen Herman --; Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; Andrew Scull --; Action for change in the UK: thirty years of the user/survivor movement; Peter Campbell; and; Diana Rose --; Recovery in mental illness: the roots, meanings, and implementations of a'new' services movement; Ann McCranie --; Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion: a UK perspective; Jenny Secker --; Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes; Bernice A. Pescosolido
N2  - This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context
ER  -