Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality : Chinese Ethnic Minorities as Mental Health Service Users.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tang, Lynn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural psychiatry--Great Britain.

Cultural psychiatry.

Chinese--Great Britain--Psychology.

Chinese.

Minorities--Great Britain--Psychology.

Minorities.

Mental illness--Treatment--Great Britain.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Treatment.

Psychology.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities. This book uses the rich narratives of the recovery journeys of Chinese mental health service users in the UK - a perceived 'hard-to-reach group' and largely invisible in mental health literature - to illustrate the myriad ways that social inequalities such as class, ethnicity and gender contribute to service users' distress and mental ill-health, as well as shape their subsequent recovery journeys. Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality contributes to the debate about the implementation of 'recovery approach' in mental health services and demonstrates the importance of tackling structural inequalities in facilitating meaningful recovery. This timely book would benefit practitioners and students in various fields, such as nurses, social workers and mental health postgraduate trainees."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality- Front Cover; Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: What recovery? Whose recovery? Recovery as a disputed approach; Introduction; What recovery?; Whose recovery?; Central inquiries and method; Recovery from what to where?; Possible social forces impinging on Chinese service users' recovery journeys; Overview of the book; Chapter 2: Exploring social inequalities with the Capabilities Approach and Intersectionality Analysis; Introduction; A critical realist exploration.

Five reasons for using the Capabilities ApproachIntersectionality Analysis and social location; Towards a synthesis of the Capabilities Approach and Intersectionality Analysis; Chapter 3: When things start to fall apart: social conditions and the loss of capabilities; Introduction; Positioning the service users; Capabilities loss: social conditions and the deterioration of mental well-being; Conclusions; Chapter 4: Becoming a psychiatric patient; Introduction; Pathways to care: structure and process.

Language capability, interpretation services and assertiveness in exercising agency in medical encountersReceiving a diagnosis; Interventions: what works and what doesn't; Hospitalisation; The 'incomplete' project of medicalisation and pragmatism in adopting explanatory models; Conclusions; Chapter 5: Life after shipwreck: social conditions for capabilities (re)development; Introduction; Building a life in the community; Recovering from social conditions or further capability deprivation; Conclusions.

Chapter 6: Stubbornly strive to be human: meanings of recovery, hope and adaptive preferencesIntroduction; Sanism and the use of identities as life strategies; The formation of hope and adaptive preferences; Cautious strategies in steering life; Aspiring to agency development and emancipation; Conclusions; Chapter 7: Social conditions for recovery: towards a social justice agenda; Introduction; Exploring recovery, mental health and inequality with the Capabilities Approach and Intersectionality Analysis; Key findings: the capabilities loss and development of Chinese service users in the UK.

Implications for policy and practiceConclusions: towards a social justice agenda; Methodological epilogue: developing the service user knowledge of Chinese communities; Introduction; Life history interview: agency, social location and social structure; The social location of the researcher: service user knowledge, translocational data and purposive sampling; Language, translations, ethics and access; Data analysis; Challenges and reflections on building a collective capability of knowledge development; Appendix: participants' biographical data; References; Index.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781317532897

1317532899

OCLC:

993780128

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