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Madness, distress and the politics of disablement /
Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, especially since the inclusion of psychosocial disability in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , |
| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Policy Press,
[2015]
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Table des matières:
- MADNESS, DISTRESS AND THE POLITICS OF DISABLEMENT
- Contents
- About the authors
- Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One. Disjunctures between disability and madness
- 1. Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress
- Madness as unsettling
- The pathologisation of madness
- Negotiating a mad/disabled identity
- Conclusion
- 2. What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement
- Introduction
- Reverberations of 'disability'
- Three levels of disability debates.
- Closing thoughts
- 3. Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disability
- Heterogeneities of madness and disability
- Across disability and madness
- Conclusion: complications we can't ignore
- 4. Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability
- Introduction
- The shifting ground of impairment and disability.
- Conceptions and contestations of 'impairment' within the disability field.
- Impairment in mental health and psy science
- Problems with others ways of defining impairment.
- Distress, norms and the social model of disability
- Linking the social model of disability, policy and practice
- Conclusion
- Part Two. Theorising distress and disablement
- 5. Towards a socially situated model of mental distress
- The social model of disability and the politics of stigma
- The social meaning of mental distress
- Recovery
- Towards a socially situated model of mental distress
- 6. The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health
- Theoretical models of disability
- An alternative model: the Capabilities Approach.
- Interactions of mental distress with disablism and impairment
- Conclusions
- Part Three. Applying social models of disability
- 8. Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women's mental distress
- Introduction
- Complex trauma
- Background to Sally's story
- Sally's story
- Complex trauma and psycho-emotional disablism
- Individual responses to trauma
- Family responses
- Community responses
- Service responses
- Conclusion
- 9. Linking 'race', mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities?
- Introduction.
- The value of the Capabilities Approach to disability
- Tools for implementing a Capabilities Approach
- How the Capabilities Approach can strengthen a social model of mental health
- Conclusions
- 7. Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress
- Introduction
- The extended social relational definition of disablism
- Psycho-emotional disablism and mental distress
- Mental distress as a different way of being
- Disabled and experiencing mental distress: an invisible group of people?
- The stickiness of 'impairment' within accounts of mental distress.