Understanding Mental Distress

Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-4987-7
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

In this timely analysis, Rich Moth assesses mental health services in a period of major change.

Based on extended fieldwork in community mental health services, he explores the many impacts of policy reform, marketisation and austerity on NHS mental health provision, and positions developments in the contexts of neoliberalism and an increased emphasis on individual responsibility.

Firmly rooted in the lived experiences of people using mental health services and the everyday practices of social workers, nurses and psychiatrists, he develops a stimulating perspective on how mental distress is understood and responded to within these settings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moth, Rich

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part 1: Socio-Historical Contexts of Policy and Practice

Chapter 1: Policy Responses to Mental Distress: From the Asylum to Neoliberal Services

Part 2: Lived Experiences of Neoliberal Reform

Chapter 2: The Transition from Relational to Informational Practice

Chapter 3: Time, Trust and Relational Practice

Chapter 4: Risk and Responsibilisation

Chapter 5: Defining Mental Distress

Chapter 6: Punitive Managerialism Under Austerity

Chapter 7: Shifting Contours of Managerial Control



Part 3: Theorising Knowledge and Practice

Chapter 8: Temporality and Situational Logics in the Labour Process

Chapter 9: Biomedical Residualism and its Discontents

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Moth, Rich
Rich Moth is Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway University of London.

Rich Moth is Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway, University of London.