Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability

Rejuvenating the Relationship between Social Science and Psychiatry
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-43969-3
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory.

Dominant discourse of the last half century has followed a medical perspective. This has marginalised contributions from social science. Furthermore purely medical approaches to mental healthcare have profound shortcomings. Thus, this book draws upon innovative research findings to rejuvenate the relationship between psychiatry and social science. It frames this by reference to certain inevitable and uncertain elements of mental health which characterise this field.

Over nine chapters the volume is a unique contribution to several intersecting areas of intellectual enterprise, research, and learning — as well as a source of insight into how mental health practice and policy might be modified and improved. As a result, it appeals to a wide range of audiences including social scientists, mental health practitioners, mental health researchers, social theorists, mental health service users, and policy-makers.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, Melanie

Middleton, Hugh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Gesundheitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Returning to the Fray: Revisiting what Social Science Can Offer Psychiatry … and vice versa.- Chapter 2: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Mental Health Assertive Outreach.- Chapter 3: The Role of Everyday Interaction Rituals within Therapeutic Communities.- Chapter 4: The Dementia Experience: Sociological Observations on the Construction of Cognition in Care Homes Kezia Scales.- Chapter 5: “The will’s there and the skill’s there”: Prison Mental Healthcare.- Chapter 6: Institutional and Emotion Work in Forensic Psychiatry: Detachment and Desensitisation.- Chapter 7: Community Mental Health Teams: Interacting Groups of Citizen-Agent?.- Chapter 8: Handling Role Boundaries: A Basic Social Process underpinning decision making in mental health teams.- Chapter 9: Mental Health Uncertainty & Inevitability.

Über Autor(innen)

Hugh Middleton is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, and an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist.
Melanie Jordan is is Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Nottingham, UK.