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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Walker, Carl (Συγγραφέας), Hart, Angie (Συγγραφέας), Hanna, Paul (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Social work.; Social service.; Clinical psychology.; Psychology, Pathological.; Critical psychology.; Psychopathology.; Clinical Psychology.; Critical Psychology.; Social Work and Community Development.; Social Work.

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 embe...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. The Flawed Assumptions of Psychology and Psychiatry: A Martian Analysis
• Chapter 2. Social Approaches to Distress: From Enclosures to Fluid Spaces
• Chapter 3. ‘Bike Minded’ - Normal Human Encounters (on Bikes)
• Chapter 5. ‘Helping Them Hold Up Their World’: Parents of Children with Complex Needs and the Beneficent Organisation
• Chapter 6. I’m Singing in the Rain
• Chapter 7: ‘A Place to Be’: A Cut and Shut of the Brighton Unemployed Families Centre Project
• Chapter 8. The Joy of Sex
• Chapter 9. Some Possible Directions for the Future. .