The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness
- ISBN-10
- 1847873820
- ISBN-13
- 9781847873828
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 547
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Authors
- Anne Rogers, David Pilgrim, Bernice Pescosolido
Description
This title integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives - firstly as a positive state of well-being and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The SAGE Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
By Robert A. Rubinstein, Susan C. Scrimshaw, Sandra D. LaneCunningham, F. G., Leveno, K. J., Bloom, S. L., Dashe, J. S., Hoffman, B. L., Casey, B. M., & Spong, C. Y. (2018) Williams obstetrics (25th edition). New York: McGraw Hill. Davis, D. (2019) Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, ...
-
Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace
By Michel Hersen, Jay C. ThomasThis Handbook stimulates new perspectives on established theories and generates practical, yet rigorous, solutions to new problems.
-
The Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine
By Ray Fitzpatrick, Gary L Albrecht, Susan C ScrimshawThis is the first international and inter-disciplinary social science Handbook on health and medicine.
-
The Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine
By F. CollyerScambler, G. (2011) 'Stigma and Mental Disorder' in Pilgrim, D.; Rogers, A. and Pescosolido, B.A. (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Mental Health and Illness. Sage Publishers: London, England. pp. 218–238. Scheff, T.J. (1966) Being Mentally ...
-
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology
By Carla Willig, Wendy Stainton RogersEducational and Psychological Studies in the School of Education and Human Development and directs the ... Her main interests are social psychological perspectives on health and illness, especially mental health and ageing.
-
The SAGE Handbook of Health Care Ethics
By Henk ten Have, Ruth Chadwick, Eric M. MeslinBuchanan usefully reminds us that complex bureaucratic organizations are webs of agent–principal relations and that a major challenge for senior administrators is to ensure that agents act in the best interests of the organization ...
-
The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment: Personality Theories and Models (Volume 1)
By Gerald Matthews, Gregory J Boyle, Donald H SaklofskeHe has published over 150 articles, and is co-editor of the book, Health, Illness, and Families: A Life-span Perspective, and the book, Behavioral and Psychopharmacological Therapeutics in Pain Management. He is on several editorial ...
-
The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research
By Robert Dingwall, Ivy Bourgeault, Ray de VriesThe Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods.
-
The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty [2 volumes]
By Robert S. RycroftNearly 1 in 5 Americans suffers from mental illness each year. Retrieved July 21, 2015, ... In D. Pilgrim, A. Rogers, & B. Pescosolido (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness (pp. 202–217). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
-
The SAGE Handbook of Health Psychology
By Andrew Baum, Marie Johnston, Stephen SuttonThis volume provides readers with a one-stop, authoritative guide to the major themes and debates in health psychology, both past and present.