Turning mental health into social action / Bernard Guerin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guerin, Bernard, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Exploring the environmental and social foundations of human behaviour

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Social aspects.

Psychology.

Mental health--Social aspects.

Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages).

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Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Bernard Guerin has worked in both Australia and New Zealand researching and teaching to merge psychology with the social sciences. His main research now focuses on contextualizing 'mental health' behaviours, working with Indigenous communities, and exploring social contextual analyses especially for language use and thinking.

Contents:

1 The hidden histories of clinical and therapeutic psychology p. 1

2 Contextualizing 'mental health' behaviours p. 19

3 What are the bad situations that lead to the 'mental health' behaviours and other outcomes? p. 49

4 Contextualizing 'mental health' symptoms without diagnoses', initial explorations p. 76

5 How can we change behaviour by changing local bad situations? p. 112

6 How can we change language use and thinking in 'mental health'? p. 128

7 How can we change behaviours shaped by the bad situations produced by societal structures of modernity? p. 144

8 Interventions for 'mental health' symptoms produced by colonization and patriarchal bad situations p. 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781000094688

1000094685

9781003021285

100302128X

9781000094749

100009474X

9781000094718

1000094715

Publisher Number:

40030134409

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.