Mental Health Matters de Dr Roger Gomm

Mental Health Matters

Dr Roger Gomm

Tom Heller

Rosemary Muston

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 2000

Mental Health Mattersis an innovative, interdisciplinary collection of texts which challenge traditional understandings of mental health, emphasising the perspectives of mental health service-users. Combining classic writings about mental health practices and problems from psychiatry, sociology and psychology with specially commissioned new articles, it considers theories and debates in mental health and distress; the social and historical dimensions of mental health; involving users in mental health services and practically improving those services.

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PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISTRESS: DEBATES AND THEORIES Introduction Psychological Approaches to Mental Health and Distress; R. Dallos A Psychiatric Perspective on Mental Distress; R.E. Kendall 'Schizophrenia' Re-evaluated; M. Boyle Life Events Loss and Depressive Disorders; G. Browne Transition and Loss; C. Murray Parkes Women and Madness; P. Chesler The Cultural Context of Mental Distress; R. Warner Labelling Mental Illness; T. Scheff On Being Sane in Insane Places; D.L. Rosenhan Reversing Deviance; R. Gomm Some Problematic Aspects of Dementia; T. Kitwood The Families' Experience; D. Jones PART TWO: MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS Introduction Mental Health and Inequality; R. Gomm George III and Changing Views of Madness; L. Jones Professionals, the State and the Development of Mental Health Policy; J. Busfield Beyond the Asylum; J. Leff Scare in the Community: Britain in Moral Panic; M. Muijen Media Images of Mental Distress; G. Philo, J. Secker, S. Platt, L. Henderson, G. McLaughlin and J. Burnside Towards Understanding Suicide; S. Taylor and A. Gilmour Two Notions of Risk in Mental Health Debates; D. Pilgrim and A. Rogers The History of Tranquilliser Use; J. Gabe The Black Experience of Mental Health Law; D. Browne The Need to Change Mental Health Law; N. Eastman PART THREE: INVOLVING USERS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Introduction The History of the User Movement in the UK; P. Campbell The Lives of 'Users' P. Barham and R. Hayward Structuring Effective User Involvement; G. Maza Mental Health Services that Empower Women; J. Williams and G. Watson Asian Women Speak Out; S. Fenton and A. Sadiq Focusing on Health: Focus Groups for Consulting About Health Needs; M. Tang and C. Cunninghame What Users Want from Crisis Services; L. Sayce, Y. Christie, M. Slade and A. Cobb PART FOUR: EXAMINING PRACTICE Introduction Using Research to Change Practice; G. Parry Reviewing Advances in Psychiatry; R. Ramsay and T. Fahy Normalising Professional Skills; D. Brandon Developing a Bridge to Women's Social Action; S. Holland Working Psychotherapeutically with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse; F. Gardner Treating Anorexia Nervosa; J. Russell Rehabilitating Voice-Hearers; M. Romme Communicating as if Your Life Depended on It; J. Killick Practising Cultural Psychiatry; S. Acharyya Maintaining an Emergency Service; P. Tyrer Working with Refugees and Survivors of Torture; J. Shackman and J. Reynolds Doing Being Human; T. Heller.