E-Book, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Web PDF
Aneshensel / Phelan Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-36223-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 628 Seiten, Web PDF
Reihe: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
ISBN: 978-0-387-36223-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This book explores the social origins of mental health, covering both the social conditions that lead to behaviors defined as mental illness, and the ways in which the concept of mental illness is socially constructed around those behaviors. The book also reviews body of research that examines socially conditioned responses to mental illness on the part of individuals and institutions, and ways in which these responses affect the lives of persons with mental illness.
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Professional/practitioner
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Weitere Infos & Material
Introdiction.- The Sociology of Mental Health.- Mental Illness in a Multicultural Context.- Mental Illness as Psychiatric Disorder.- The Sociological Study of Mental Illness.- Observing Mental Health in the Community.- Issues in Mental Health Assessment.- Analyzing Associations between Mental Health and Social Circumstances.- The Social Distribution of Mental Illness.- Overview of Descriptive Epidemiology of Mental Disorders.- Socioeconomic Status and Mental Health.- Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in the Sociology of Mental Health.- Mental Disorder in Late Life.- Splitting the Difference.- Family Status and Mental Health.- Work and Mental Health.- Social Antecedents of Mental Illness.- Social Stress.- Social Integration and Support.- Social Stratification and Inequality.- Self, Identity, Stress, and Mental Health.- The Sense of Personal Control.- The Stress Process Revisited.- Social Transmission in Acute Somatoform Epidemics.- Social Consequences of Mental Illness.- The Social Dynamics of Responding to Mental Health Problems.- Mental Health Services and Systems.- Labeling and Stigma.- The Impact of Mental Illness on the Family.- Institutional Contexts of Mental Illness.- Mental Hospitals and Deinsitutionalization.- Instituting Madness.- Social Continuities.- Life-Course Perspectives on Mental Health.- Mental Illness as a Career.
