Mental Health Care and Social Policy

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-25242-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 430 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society

Originally published in 1985, at a time when the previous 2 decades had witnessed dramatic changes in the US mental health system. These included the decline of the state mental hospital, the birth of the community mental health center and the expansion of psychiatric services in general hospitals. The inevitable results of the changes were the creation of a huge nursing home population of the chronically mentally ill, and the multiplication of urban ‘street people’. Mental health care is uncoordinated and underfunded. The historical roots of these problems are examined in this book which is designed both as a professional reference volume and as a text for students in the sociology of mental health and illness. The contributors are drawn from diverse fields, including sociology, psychiatry, psychology, epidemiology and social history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Phil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Neuropharmakologie, Psychopharmakologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Historical and Conceptual Concerns 1. Madness and Segregative Control: The Rise of the Insane Asylum 2. The Enduring Asylum David Rothman 3. Cycles of Institutional Reform Part 2: The Changing Mental Health System 4. The De Facto US Mental Health Services System: A Public Health Perspective 5. Deinstitutionalization and Mental Health Services 6. General Hospital Psychiatry: Overview From a Sociological Perspective 7. Community Control or Control of the Community? The Case of the Community Mental Health Center 8. The Mental Patients’ Rights Movement, and Mental Health Institutional Change Part 3: Providers and Treatments 9. Professional Training and the Future of Psychiatry 10. Prediction in Psychiatry: An Example of Misplaced Confidence in Experts 11. Medical Dominance: Psychoactive Drugs and Mental Health Policy Thomas J. Scheff 12. Clinical Psychopharmacology in its Twentieth Year George E. Crane Part 4: Alternatives to Traditional Mental Health Services 13. Mental Hospitals and Alternative Care: Non-institutionalization as Potential Public Policy 14. Self-Help and Mental Health 15. Inside the Mental Patients’ Association16. Psychology of Women: Feminist Therapy 17. From Confinement to Community: The Radical Transformation of an Italian Mental Hospital 18. The Collective Approach to Psychiatric Practice in the People’s Republic of China.

Über Autor(innen)

Phil Brown is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, USA.