Περιγραφή
People with mental health conditions are among the most socially excluded groups in society. Mental health conditions are influenced by the social environment, which in turn shapes our social and cultural responses to the people who experience them. Much of what mental health practitioners do is ‘essentially social’ and the effects of their interventions are hampered by the marginalised status of many of the people that they see. This book documents the ways in which people with mental health conditions are excluded from participating in society and offers some pointers as to how this may be reversed. It highlights the need to reduce mental health inequalities and to consider the importance of material inequalities and social injustices faced by people experiencing mental ill-health. Whilst the challenges are considerable and the solutions wide-ranging, mental health practitioners can play a significant role in facilitating the social inclusion of those with mental health conditions.
- Examines the social exclusion of people with mental health conditions from the viewpoint of their participation in society, allowing readers to appreciate the problems of material inequality faced by people with mental health conditions as well as the cultural injustices that confront them
- Covers important aspects of Social Psychiatry including the impact of social structures and experiences on the onset, course and outcome of mental health conditions as well as the influence of society on the construction of, and responses to, these conditions
- Outlines the levels of poverty and inequality in the general population across the world, placing the disadvantages experienced by people with mental health conditions in the context of circumstances seen in the general population and the socioeconomic changes that have occurred in the last seventy years
- Examines the importance of economic, social and health policies in facilitating the social inclusion of those with mental health condit
