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Handbook of the sociology of mental health /

This second edition of the Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health features theory-driven reviews of recent research with a comprehensive approach to the investigation of the ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members and the lives of those who have been diagnosed as having a m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aneshensel, Carol S., Phelan, Jo C., Bierman, Alex
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, 2013
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Handbooks of sociology and social research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: The sociology of mental health: surveying the field
  • Chapter 2: Listening to voices: patient experience and the meanings of mental illness
  • Chapter 3: Mental illness as psychiatric disorder
  • Chapter 4: The medicalization of mental disorder
  • Chapter 5: Public beliefs about mental illness
  • Chapter 6: The sociological study of mental illness: a critique and synthesis of four perspectives
  • Chapter 7: Issues in mental health assessment
  • Chapter 8: Analyzing associations between mental health and social circumstances
  • Chapter 9: Overview of descriptive epidemiology of mental disorders
  • Chapter 10: Age, aging, and mental health
  • Chapter 11: Social stratification, social closure, and social class as determinants of mental health disparities
  • Chapter 12: Social stratification and inequality
  • Chapter 13: Race, nativity, ethnicity, and cultural influences in the sociology of mental health
  • Chapter 14: Gender and mental health
  • Chapter 15: Social stress in the twenty-first century
  • Chapter 16: Current issues and future directions in research into the stress process
  • Chapter 17: Social relations, social integration, and social support
  • Chapter 18: Self, identity, stress, and mental health
  • Chapter 19: The sense of personal control: social structural causes and emotional consequences
  • Chapter 20: Family status and mental health: recent advances and future directions
  • Chapter 21: The sociology of work and well-being
  • Chapter 22: Religion and mental health
  • Chapter 23: Neighborhood context and mental health
  • Chapter 24: The social dynamics of responding to mental health problems
  • Chapter 25: Labeling and stigma
  • Chapter 26: The impact of mental illness on the family
  • Chapter 27: Mental illness and the law
  • Chapter 28: Life-course perspectives on mental health
  • Chapter 29: Mental illness as a career: sociological perspectives.