Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Ties That Enable : Community Solidarity for People Living with Serious Mental Health Problems / S. Megan Smith, Teresa L. Scheid.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (168 p.) : 4 color images, 2 tablesContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781978818798
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Current Impasse over Mental Health Care -- 2. Looking Back: Reflections on the Reality of Community-Based Mental Health Care -- 3. Being a “Right Person”: Social Acceptance in a Faith-Based Program -- 4. Doing the “Best” We Can: Developing Social Relationships and Overcoming Isolation -- 5. Us and Them: Confronting Recovery in the Face of Marginalization -- 6. Going Backward: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Failures of the Past? -- 7. Working toward Community Solidarity and Social Justice -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors
Summary: Ties that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781978818798

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Current Impasse over Mental Health Care -- 2. Looking Back: Reflections on the Reality of Community-Based Mental Health Care -- 3. Being a “Right Person”: Social Acceptance in a Faith-Based Program -- 4. Doing the “Best” We Can: Developing Social Relationships and Overcoming Isolation -- 5. Us and Them: Confronting Recovery in the Face of Marginalization -- 6. Going Backward: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Failures of the Past? -- 7. Working toward Community Solidarity and Social Justice -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Ties that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)