The SAGE handbook of mental health and illness/ Handbook of mental health and illness Mental health and illness edited by David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Bernice Pescosolido. - Los Angeles: SAGE, 2011. - xviii, 547 p. ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The limits to psychiatric and behavioral genetics / The challenge of measurement of mental disorder in community surveys / Mental health, positive psychology and the sociology of the self / Sociological aspects of the emotions / Ethnicity, race and mental disorder in the UK / Gender matters: differences in depression between women and men / The diagnosis of depression in an international context / Stressors and experienced stress / Religious beliefs and mental health: applications and extensions of the stress process model / Children, culture, and mental illness: public knowledge and stigma toward childhood problems / Stigma and mental disorder / Medicalization and mental health: the critique of medical expansion, and a consideration of how markets, national states, and citizens matters / Danger and diagnosed mental disorder / Biological explanations for and responses to madness / The psychology of psychosis / Sociological aspects of personality disorder / Sociological aspects of substance misuse / Social aspects of psychotropic medication / Common mental health problems: primary care and health inequalities in the UK / Promoting mental health / Institutionalization and deinstitutionalization / Action for change in the UK: thirty years of the user/survivor movement / Recovery in mental illness: the roots, meanings, and implementations of a "new" services movement / Mental health problems, social exclusion and social inclusion: a UK perspective / Social network influence in mental health and illness, service use and settings, and treatment outcomes / Angus Clarke -- Jerome C. Wakefield Mark F. Schmitz -- Benedikt Rogge -- Gillian Bendelow -- James Nazroo Karen Iley -- Jane M. Ussher -- Renata Kokanovic -- Susan Roxburgh -- Scott Schieman -- Brea Perry Bernice A. Pescosolido -- Graham Scambler -- Sigrun Olafsdottir -- David Pilgrim Anne Rogers -- Philip Thomas -- Richard Bentall -- Nick Manning -- Michael Bloor Alison Munro -- David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers Jonathan Gabe -- Carolyn Chew-Graham -- Helen Herman -- Andrew Scull -- Peter Campbell Diana Rose -- Ann McCranie -- Jenny Secker -- Bernice A. Pescosolido. Section 1 Mental health and mental disorder in social context -- and and and and Section 2 Clinical and policy topics -- and and and

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Mental health
Mental health--Social aspects.
Mental illness
Mental Health.
Mental Disorders.
Mental Health Services.

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