Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health - Spaces, Places, People and Activities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded within specific historical, cultural, political and economic settings. The authors challenge mainstream understandings of mental health that position a naive public in need of mental health literacy. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is undertaken in spaces in our communities that are not understood as mental health treatments. This book represents one of the first attempts to position these kinds of spaces at the center of how we understand and address problems of mental distress and suffering. The chapters draw on case studies from the UK and abroad to point toward an exciting new paradigm based on informal community and socially oriented approaches to mental health. Written in an unusually accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to social science students, academics, practitioners and policy makers interested in community and social approaches to mental health.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Carl Walker • Angie Hart • Paul Hanna
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	199
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-36098-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General
LSN:	1-137-36098-4
Barcode:	9781137360984

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