International perspectives on mental health : critical issues across the lifespan /
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| Author / Creator: | Fawcett, Barbara, 1955- Ph. D. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
| Description: | x, 196 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8560473 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Part I. Mental Health: An Overview
- 1. Historical Moments in Mental Health: From Straitjackets to the Streets
- Historical mental health narratives and other constructions
- In the beginning
- Institutional impulse
- Towards community care
- Concluding remarks
- 2. Constructions of Mental Illness: From the Past towards the Future
- Challenging and changing constructions of mental illness
- Literary interpretations
- Proposals and counter-proposals
- Diagnosis and professional power
- Concluding remarks
- 3. Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in Mental Health
- The rationales for mental health legislation
- Mental health legislation - issues of implementation
- Controversy surrounding community treatment orders and hospital treatment
- Recent legislative change affecting the role of 'Careres'
- Advance directives
- Evidence-based practice
- Concluding remarks
- Part II. Mental Health across the Lifespan
- 4. Children's Matters
- The diagnosis of mental illness in children
- Stress-related factors
- The construction of disorders: ADHD
- Current provision for children
- Concluding remarks
- 5. Trying Times for Adolescents: Fight, Flight or Compliance?
- Who is an adolescent?
- Pressures placed on adolescents
- Resilience
- Early intervention
- Current service provision and the voices of young people
- Concluding remarks
- 6. Adults: The Terrain of Mental Ill-Health
- A historical overview of women and mental health
- Exploring men and mental health status
- Social determinants of mental ill-health
- Concluding remarks
- 7. Older Women and Men and Mental Health: Turning Around the Stereotypes
- Place and position
- Human rights and capacity
- Community mental health
- Social supports
- The 'well-being' agenda
- Considerations of dementia
- Concluding remarks
- Part III. Mental Health Landscapes
- 8. The Case of Dual Diagnosis
- The clinical identity of dual diagnosis
- Dual diagnosis: social dimensions
- Concluding remarks
- 9. The Upside/Down of Caring: Families in Mental Health
- 'Caring' constructions
- Family narratives
- Families and 'care'
- Individuals and families
- Concluding remarks
- 10. Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Mental Health
- Setting the scene
- Anti-oppressive and anti-discriminatory practice
- Two perspectives of power
- Critical reflection
- Addressing social exclusion
- Mental health professionals: spatial analysis and social entrepreneurship
- Concluding remarks
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
