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Social Perspective : The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice / Richard U'Ren.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442642966
  • 9781442695207
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.2/0420973 23
LOC classification:
  • RC455 .U74 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Social Perspective -- 2. Socioeconomic Status, Psychiatric Disorder, and Psychological Distress -- 3. Social Class -- 4. Growing Inequality: Causes and Consequences -- 5. Work and Whitehall -- 6. Links between Socioeconomic Status, Well-Being, and Distress -- 7. Class Differences in Psychotherapy -- 8. The DSM, Disorder, and Distress -- 9. Social Perspective in Practice -- 10. In Closing -- Appendix: Reading for a Social Perspective -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic conditions, and the social stratification system all contribute to individual well-being or disorder. U'Ren investigates how access to income, education, and social affiliations buffers individuals against stress and facilitates coping. He demonstrates that those who lack access to such resources suffer the poorest health and the greatest mental distress - a problem that has only grown more challenging with rising inequality. Adding a new dimension to understandings of mental health, mental illness, and psychological distress, Social Perspective offers clinicians a concise account of society's impact on the individual.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Social Perspective -- 2. Socioeconomic Status, Psychiatric Disorder, and Psychological Distress -- 3. Social Class -- 4. Growing Inequality: Causes and Consequences -- 5. Work and Whitehall -- 6. Links between Socioeconomic Status, Well-Being, and Distress -- 7. Class Differences in Psychotherapy -- 8. The DSM, Disorder, and Distress -- 9. Social Perspective in Practice -- 10. In Closing -- Appendix: Reading for a Social Perspective -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic conditions, and the social stratification system all contribute to individual well-being or disorder. U'Ren investigates how access to income, education, and social affiliations buffers individuals against stress and facilitates coping. He demonstrates that those who lack access to such resources suffer the poorest health and the greatest mental distress - a problem that has only grown more challenging with rising inequality. Adding a new dimension to understandings of mental health, mental illness, and psychological distress, Social Perspective offers clinicians a concise account of society's impact on the individual.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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