Summarizing mental health research conducted by sociologists over the last 30 years, A Sociology of Mental Illness provides a consistent narrative that emphasizes how social statuses and social roles affect mental health. The mental health treatment system and the public's reaction to mental illness are also comprehensively discussed. Topics include social causes and consequences of mental illness; social statuses, such as gender, socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, age, and community; deviant behavior; and the challenges of community mental health. For those in the fields of sociology, psychology, nursing, and social workers.

A Sociology of Mental Illness (2nd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Tausig, Mark

Michello, Janet

Subedi, Sree

Social Sciences

Pearson

This book presents the social context of mental health and illness. It takes a social causation perspective that emphasizes the psychological consequences of patterns of social organization. Part I emphasizes the social causes of psychological distress. Part II describes the societal reactions to deviant behavior emphasizing social labeling and the medical control of deviance. Reflecting the current focus in contemporary sociological research into mental illness, this book highlights the distinctive contribution of sociological explanations. It tells a unified story through the use of a consistent thematic presentation across all chapters and links discussions to important central themes throughout the discipline. An essential reference for all mental health and health care professionals in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, and Nursing.

Sociology of Mental Illness, A

Sociology

PRENTICE/HALL

Work and Mental Health in Social Context (Social Disparities in Health and Health Care)

Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme levels. Four in ten American workers say that their jobs are “very” or “extremely” stressful.   Job stress is recognized as an epidemic in the workplace, and its economic and health care costs are staggering: by some estimates over $ 1 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism and worker turnover, and at least that much in treating its health effects, ranging from anxiety and psychological depression to cardiovascular disease and hypertension.Why are so many American workers so stressed out by their jobs? Many psychologists say stress is the result of a mismatch between the characteristics of a job and the personality of the worker. Many management consultants propose reducing stress by “redesigning” jobs and developing better individual strategies for “coping” with their stress. But, these explanations are not the whole story. They don’t explain why some jobs and some occupations are more stressful than other jobs and occupations, regardless of the personalities and “coping strategies” of individual workers. Why do auto assembly line workers and air traffic controllers report more job stress than university professors,  self-employed business owners, or corporate managers (yes, managers!)?   The authors of Work and Mental Health in Social Context take a different approach to understanding the causes of job stress. Job stress is systematically created by the characteristics of the jobs themselves: by the workers’ occupation, the organizations in which they work, their placements in different labor markets, and by broader social, economic and institutional structures, processes and events. And disparities in job stress are systematically determined in much the same way as are other disparities in health, income, and mobility opportunities. In taking this approach, the authors draw on the observations and insights from a diverse field of sociological and economic theories and research. These go back to the nineteenth century writings of Marx, Weber and Durkheim on the relationship between work and well-being. They also include the more contemporary work in organizational sociology, structural labor market research from sociology and economics, research on unemployment and economic cycles, and research on institutional environments. This has allowed the authors to develop a unified framework that extends sociological models of income inequality and “status” attainment (or allocation) to the explanation of non-economic, health-related outcomes of work. Using a multi-level structural model, this timely and comprehensive volume explores what is stressful about work, and why; specifically address these and questions and more:-What characteristics of jobs are the most stressful; what characteristics reduce stress?-Why do work organizations structure some jobs to be highly stressful and some jobs to be much less stressful? Is work in a bureaucracy really more stressful?-How is occupational “status” occupational “power” and “authority” related to the stressfulness of work?-How does the “segmentation” of labor markets by occupation, industry, race, gender, and citizenship maintain disparities in job stress?- Why is unemployment stressful to workers who don’t lose their jobs? -How do public policies on employment status, collective bargaining, overtime affect job stress?-Is work in the current “Post (neo) Fordist” era of work more or less stressful than work during the “Fordist” era?   In addition to providing a new way to understand the sociological causes of job stress and mental health, the model that the authors provide has broad applications to further study of this important area of research. This volume will be of key interest to sociologists and other researchers studying social stratification, public health, political economy, institutional and organizational theory.

Business & Money

Fenwick, Rudy

Economics

Springer

Job stress is epidemic in the workplace, with staggering worldwide economic and health costs. This timely and comprehensive volume draws on insight and research from diverse sociological and economic theories to examine what is stressful about work, and why.

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