The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness

Edited by:

David Pilgrim - University of Southampton, UK
Anne Rogers - University of Southampton, UK
Bernice Pescosolido - Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

Other Titles in:
Mental Health | Nursing | Other Health Specialties

568 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness is a landmark volume, which 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 personal and social functioning and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

Unique features include:

A broad and inclusive view of the field, providing depth and breadth for the reader
A team of international, multi-disciplinary editors and contributors
Discussion of the many of the unresolved debates in the field about constructs and causes

The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for graduate students, academics, and researchers studying mental health in disciplines such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing, and sociology.

PART ONE: MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISORDER IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Editors' Introduction

Angus Clarke

The Limits to Psychiatric and Behavioural Genetics

Jerome C Wakefield and Mark F Schmitz

The Challenge of Measurement of Mental Disorder in Community Surveys

Benedikt Rogge

Mental Health, Positive Psychology and the Sociology of the Self

Gillian Bendelow

Sociological Aspects of the Emotions

James Nazroo and Karen Iley

Ethnicity, Race and Mental Disorder in the UK

Jane M Ussher

Gender Matters: Differences in Depression between Women and Men

Renata Kokanovic

The Diagnosis of Depression in an International Context

Susan Roxburgh

Stressors and Experienced Stress

Scott Schieman

Religious Beliefs and Mental Health

Applications and Extensions of the Stress Process Model

Brea Perry and Bernice A Pescosolido

Children, Culture and Mental Illness

Public Knowledge and Stigma toward Childhood Problems

Graham Scambler

Stigma and Mental Disorder

Sigrun Olafsdottir

Medicalization and Mental Health

The Critique of Medical Expansion and a Consideration of How Markets, National States, and Citizens Matter

David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers

Danger and Diagnosed Mental Disorder

PART TWO: CLINICAL AND POLICY TOPICS

Editors' Introduction

Philip Thomas

Biological Explanations for and Responses to Madness

Richard Bentall

The Psychology of Psychosis

Nick Manning

Sociological Aspects of Personality Disorder

Michael Bloor and Alison Munro

Sociological Aspects of Substance Misuse

David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Jonathan Gabe

Sociological Aspects of Psychotropic Medication

Carolyn Chew-Graham

Common Mental Health Problems

Primary Care and Health Inequalities in the UK

Helen Herrman

Promoting Mental Health

Andrew Scull

Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization

Peter Campbell and Diana Rose

Action for Change in the UK

Thirty Years of the User/Survivor Movement

Ann McCranie

Recovery in Mental Illness

The Roots, Meanings and Implementations of a 'New' Services Movement

Jenny Secker

Mental Health Problems, Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion

A UK Perspective

Bernice A Pescosolido

Social Network Influence in Mental Health and Illness, Service Use and Settings, and Treatment Outcomes

A wide-ranging and cross-national examination of many core issues in the sociology of mental health. It presents a variety of perspectives on fundamental substantive and policy issues in mental health and illness. Its scope and range make it ideal for scholars and students in a variety of disciplines concerned with social aspects of psychological distress and disorder.

Allan Horwitz

Rutgers University

"Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."

D. Harper

University of Rochester

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Editor's Introduction

David Pilgrim

David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton. After training and working as a clinical psychologist he completed a PhD examining psychotherapy in the organisational setting of the British NHS. He then went on to complete a Master’s in sociology. He has worked at the boundary between clinical psychology and medical sociology for the past 20 years and has produced over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, based upon his research into mental health policy and practice. His years working in the British NHS provided him... More About Author

Anne Rogers

After graduating in Social Sciences (Sociology and Social Policy) from the Polytechnic of Central London in 1984, I undertook an M.Sc in Sociology as Applied to Medicine at Bedford College, University of London. I then gained employment as a research officer in the Legal Department of National Mind, exploring the implementation of Section 136 of the Mental Health Act where I became interested in a broad range of mental health issues including civil commiment, coercion, drug treatments and user involvement. During that time I undertook a part-time Phd at the University of Nottingham exploring notions of profesional dominance applied to... More About Author

Bernice A. Pescosolido

Bernice A. Pescosolido is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Professor Pescosolido received a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982. She has focused her research and teaching on social issues in health, illness, and healing. ... More About Author

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