Research handbook on society and mental health / edited by Marta Elliott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elliott, Marta, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

"This engaging Research Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on social factors and mental health, examining how important it is to consider the social context in which mental health issues develop. It illustrates how social factors contribute to problems with mental health and how society, in turn, responds to people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Expert contributors provide an in-depth review of the history of social factors and mental health, and also discuss how boundaries between disorders such as bipolar and borderline personality disorder can be blurred and contested. Past and current social factors are thoroughly reviewed such as refugee mental health, stressors linked to discrimination based on race, gender or sexual orientation, exposure to police violence and the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges and stigma faced by those diagnosed with disorders, alongside prejudices and discrimination in the health care system are also examined. The Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health will be an excellent resource for scholars studying social issues in relation to mental health or illness and researchers wishing to take an interdisciplinary approach by studying biopsychosocial factors. Mental health providers interested in well-rounded learning and those people experiencing and living with mental illness will find the alternative viewpoints to mainstream psychiatry and psychology informative and illuminating"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Introduction to Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health

1. The historical legacy of the sociology of mental health

2. Seekers and providers: medicalization of circumstantial sadness and fear

3. Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or borderline bipolar? Negotiating the blurred boundaries between psychosocial and biomedical categories

4. The digital forces of medicalization: the role of apps for mental health

5. Obscuring air pollution and pesticides' contribution to depression: the role of the Canadian and New Zealand governments

6. Refugee mental health: differential trauma exposure and gendered expectations as explanatory mechanisms for disparities

7. Stratified access to care and mental health implications for pregnant and postpartum immigrants in the US‒Mexico border region

8. Racial identity and the racial paradox in mental health

9. Does racial identity buffer against poor mental health among Black Americans? Examining everyday discrimination and the nexus of ethnicity and nativity

10. Beyond immigrant generation: religious approach, perceptions of discrimination, and the stress process model

11. Stigma visibility and health outcomes among lesbians and gay men

12. Disability, ableism, and mental health

13. The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on stress: a cross-national analysis of economic and public health policies and individual characteristics

14. School shootings: the social dynamics of mental disorder

15. The social epidemiology of adverse childhood experiences

16. Police violence and mental health: the uncharted empirical inquiry of a long-standing societal problem

17. Impact of relationship to the perpetrator and self-blame on college women's well-being following sexual assault.

18. The bitter and the sweet revisited: religious resources, spiritual struggles, and psychological distress

19. College student mental health: current trends and implications for higher education

20. Coping with the "pains of imprisonment": the interaction of institutional conditions and individual experiences on inmate mental health

21. The impact of stigma on the well-being of people diagnosed with mental illness: why stigma persists and why it remains consequential

22. Understanding inequity in mental health care: the role of discrimination in providing and experiencing care

23. Trans men's access to and discrimination in mental healthcare in the Southeastern United States

24. Beyond psychoanalysis: psychodynamic psychotherapy in a biomedical and behavioral world

25. Withdrawal, not relapse: analysis of an online forum for people coming off antidepressant medications

26. Open Dialogue approach to treating serious mental illness

27. Community-based mental health care

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Elliott, Marta Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health

ISBN:

9781800378483