Mental Health Uncertainty and Inevitability Rejuvenating the Relationship between Social Science and Psychiatry /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Middleton, Hugh (Editor), Jordan, Melanie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Social medicine.; Health psychology.; Experiential research.; Psychology Research.; Health Psychology.; Medical Sociology.

This book offers original knowledge, debate, and understanding from frontline fieldwork data and the relations between mental health difficulties, mental healthcare provision, and social theory. Dominant discourse of the last half century has followed a medical perspective. This has marginalised con...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Returning to the Fray: Revisiting what Social Science Can Offer Psychiatry … and vice versa
• Chapter 2: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Mental Health Assertive Outreach
• Chapter 3: The Role of Everyday Interaction Rituals within Therapeutic Communities
• Chapter 4: The Dementia Experience: Sociological Observations on the Construction of Cognition in Care Homes Kezia Scales
• Chapter 5: “The will’s there and the skill’s there”: Prison Mental Healthcare
• Chapter 6: Institutional and Emotion Work in Forensic Psychiatry: Detachment and Desensitisation
• Chapter 7: Community Mental Health Teams: Interacting Groups of Citizen-Agent?
• Chapter 8: Handling Role Boundaries: A Basic Social Process underpinning decision making in mental health teams
• Chapter 9: Mental Health Uncertainty & Inevitability.