Details

Subject(s)

• Mental health policy [Browse]
• Mental health services [Browse]
• Mental health—Social aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Martin, Jennifer (Associate professor of social work) [Browse]

Series

• Premier reference source. [More in this series]
• Advances in human services and public health book series. [More in this series]
• Gale eBooks
• Advances in human services and public health (AHSPH) book series

Summary note

"This book explores mental health diagnosis and dominant practices in mental health settings with a focus on issues of human rights and social justice. It also focuses on mental health literacy and intervention strategies for working with people who have been, or are at risk of being, marginalized due to being diagnosed as having a mental illness"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

System details

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Chapter 1. The history of unreason: social construction of mental illness
• Chapter 2. Risk: what is it, whom does it protect, and what happened to care?
• Chapter 3. Healthcare decision making: allied health and equity
• Chapter 4. Inherent requirements and social work education: issues of access and equity
• Chapter 5. Mental health access issues by people of refugee backgrounds in Australia
• Chapter 6. Individual funding for people with mental health issues: opportunities, tensions, and outcomes
• Chapter 7. Aboriginal wellbeing: a culturally safe, trauma-informed framework for health and mental health services
• Chapter 8. Violence: mental health, family, and media reporting
• Chapter 9. Access to evidence-based services for individuals with borderline personality disorder
• Chapter 10. Working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in care relationships
• Chapter 11. Mental health education and literacy in schools: the Australian experience
• Chapter 12. Encouraging social inclusion for older adults through "interest"-led technology use
• Chapter 13. Natural environments, ecosystems, conflict, and wellbeing: access to water.

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Other format(s)

Also available in print.

ISBN

9781522574033 (ebook)

OCLC

1051151146

Doi

• 10.4018/978-1-5225-7402-6

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