Community Psychology and the Socio-economics of Mental Distress: International Perspectives

Providing unique global perspectives on community psychology, this is exciting and important reading for students and researchers alike, written by leading experts in the field. Drawing on a wealth of experience and examples, it offers an essential guide to the political global context of this fast-developing area of psychology.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Johnson, Katherine

Walker, Carl

Cunningham, Liz

Mental Health

Red Globe Press

Providing a uniquely global perspective of community psychology, this is exciting and important reading for students and researchers at a variety of levels, written by leading experts in this area. Drawing on a wealth of experience and examples, it offers an essential guide to the political global context of this developing area of psychology.

This is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalization and depression. The text Walker reestablishes the link between mental health research and treatment, along with the political and economical influences outside the world of academic and clinical mental health. Overall, this book accomplishes the task of how closely and inextricably linked these diverse fields are and the way they operate together to produce not only a cultural representation of mental illness but influence the extent and type of mental distress in the 21st century.

Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century

Springer

Based on recent data gathered from employees and managers, Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain challenges the cultural maxim that work benefits people with mental health difficulties, and illustrates how particular cultures and perceptions can contribute to a crisis of mental well-being at work. 
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<li>Based on totally new data gathered from employees and managers in the UK</li> <li>Presents a challenge to much of the conventional wisdom surrounding work and mental health</li> <li>Questions the fundamental and largely accepted cultural maxim that work is unquestionably good for people with mental health difficulties</li> <li>Illustrates how particular cultures of work or perceptions of the experience of work contribute to a crisis of mental well-being at work</li> <li>Fills a need for an up-to-date, detailed work that explores the ways that mental health and work experiences are constructed, negotiated, constrained and at times, marginalised</li> <li>Written in a style that is detailed and informative for academics and professionals who work in the mental health sphere, but also accessible to interested lay readers</li> </ul>

Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain

Fincham, Ben

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

As suffers will know, any dermatological condition can have adevastating effect leading to feelings of isolation and depression. Filling the gap between medical advice and lay knowledge,Understanding Skin Problems provides crucial information to helpyou understand the various aspects of your condition -psychological and social as well as medical - so that you canimprove the quality of your life and learn to cope better with theproblem. Written in easy-to-understand language, it offers a positive,hopeful outlook and includes lists of organizations for furtherhelp. * Broad coverage relevant to a wide range of skin conditions * Written in a very accessible style * Lists of further help, organisations etc included Linda Papadopoulos is a Reader in Psychology and a charteredcounselling and health psychologist. She currently works as acourse director at London Guildhall University. She has publishedextensively in the fields of medical and counselling psychology andhas been invited to present her research at various internationalconferences. She has also appeared on a variety of televisionprogrammes such as 'Big Brother' as their expert psychologist. Carl Walker is a Research Psychologist at London GuildhallUniversity where he is currently finishing a PhD inpsychodermatology. He comes from a biological background, havinggraduated in biology from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College,University of London.

Understanding Skin Problems: Acne, Eczema, Psoriasis and Related Conditions

Papadopoulos, Linda

Parenting & Relationships

<div>"One of the things that has been missing during the debate over the NHS is something that speaks to the experiences of normal folk and reminds people just what an amazing thing a public national health service really is. Like so many British people, I have used the NHS for a number of reasons throughout my life--some serious, others less so--but where would I be now without it? I honestly don't know." In this funny, irreverent book, Carl Walker represents the average stories of average people whose lives are routinely and often unnoticeably held together by the people who work in the NHS. These are the people who patch us up, sew us up, radiate, advise, scan, plaster, console, repair, inject, and support us, before delivering us back home to carry out our everyday affairs. A sharply observed collection of sometimes outrageous, often excruciating, but always entertaining accounts of different interactions with one of Britain's greatest treasures. All royalties from the sale of this book will go to the NHS Support Federation.</div>

Picked Up, Patched Up and Sent Home: Why I Love the NHS

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Robert_Hale

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health: Spaces, Places, People and Activities

This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded within specific historical, cultural, political and economic settings. The authors challenge mainstream understandings of mental health that position a naive public in need of mental health literacy. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is undertaken in spaces in our communities that are not understood as mental health treatments. This book represents one of the first attempts to position these kinds of spaces at the center of how we understand and address problems of mental distress and suffering. The chapters draw on case studies from the UK and abroad to point toward an exciting new paradigm based on informal community and socially oriented approaches to mental health. Written in an unusually accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to social science students, academics, practitioners and policy makers interested in community and social approaches to mental health.

Hart, Angie

Hanna, Paul

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

<div>This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and&nbsp;psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex embodied arrays of social experiences that are embedded within specific historical, cultural, political and economic settings.&nbsp;The authors challenge mainstream understandings of mental health that position a naive public in need of mental health literacy. Instead it is clear that a considerable amount of invaluable mental distress work is undertaken in spaces in our communities that are not understood as mental health treatments. This book represents one of the first attempts to position these kinds of spaces&nbsp;at the center of how we understand and address problems of mental distress and suffering. The chapters draw on case studies from the UK and abroad to point toward an exciting new paradigm&nbsp;based on informal community and socially oriented approaches to mental health. Written in an unusually accessible and engaging style, this book will appeal to social science students,&nbsp;academics, practitioners and policy makers interested in community and social approaches to mental health.</div>

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

This is an important academic text on the political aspects of depression, specifically the relationship between globalization and depression. It is the first book dedicated to this relationship.

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Community Psychology and the Socio-economics of Mental Distress: International Perspectives

Community Psychology and the Socio-economics of Mental Distress: International Perspectives

Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century

Work and the Mental Health Crisis in Britain

Understanding Skin Problems: Acne, Eczema, Psoriasis and Related Conditions

Picked Up, Patched Up and Sent Home: Why I Love the NHS

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health: Spaces, Places, People and Activities

Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health: Spaces, Places, People and Activities

Depression and Globalization: The Politics of Mental Health in the 21st Century