Madness, distress and the politics of disablement [electronic resource]. edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson and Bob Sapey.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Spandler, Helen.

Contributor:

• Anderson, Jill.
• Sapey, Bob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• People with disabilities--Civil rights.
• People with disabilities--Government policy.
• People with disabilities--Social conditions.
• Sociology of disability.

Local Subjects:

• People with disabilities--Civil rights.
• People with disabilities--Government policy.
• People with disabilities--Social conditions.
• Sociology of disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2015.

Summary:

An exploration of the relationship between madness, distress and disability, bringing together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India.

Contents:

• MADNESS, DISTRESS AND THE POLITICS OF DISABLEMENT; Contents; About the authors; Editors; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part One. Disjunctures between disability and madness; 1. Unreasonable adjustments? Applying disability policy to madness and distress; Madness as unsettling ; The pathologisation of madness ; Negotiating a mad/disabled identity; Conclusion; 2. What we talk about when we talk about disability: making sense of debates in the European user/survivor movement; Introduction; Reverberations of 'disability'; Three levels of disability debates; Closing thoughts
• 3. Inconvenient complications: on the heterogeneities of madness and their relationship to disabilityHeterogeneities of madness and disability; Across disability and madness; Conclusion: complications we can't ignore; 4. Unsettling impairment: mental health and the social model of disability; Introduction; The shifting ground of impairment and disability.; Conceptions and contestations of 'impairment' within the disability field.; Impairment in mental health and psy science; Problems with others ways of defining impairment. ; Distress, norms and the social model of disability
• Linking the social model of disability, policy and practiceConclusion; Part Two. Theorising distress and disablement; 5. Towards a socially situated model of mental distress ; The social model of disability and the politics of stigma; The social meaning of mental distress; Recovery ; Towards a socially situated model of mental distress; 6. The Capabilities Approach and the social model of mental health ; Theoretical models of disability; An alternative model: the Capabilities Approach ; The value of the Capabilities Approach to disability; Tools for implementing a Capabilities Approach
• How the Capabilities Approach can strengthen a social model of mental healthConclusions; 7. Psycho-emotional disablism in the lives of people experiencing mental distress; Introduction; The extended social relational definition of disablism; Psycho-emotional disablism and mental distress; Mental distress as a different way of being; Disabled and experiencing mental distress: an invisible group of people?; The stickiness of 'impairment' within accounts of mental distress; Interactions of mental distress with disablism and impairment; Conclusions; Part Three.Applying social models of disability
• 8. Psycho-emotional disablism, complex trauma and women's mental distressIntroduction; Complex trauma; Background to Sally's story; Sally's story ; Complex trauma and psycho-emotional disablism; Individual responses to trauma; Family responses ; Community responses ; Service responses ; Conclusion ; 9. Linking 'race', mental health and a social model of disability: what are the possibilities?; Introduction; The context: mental distress and racism/racialisation; Distress, 'race' and the social model of disability
• Towards a social model informed by intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and 'othering'

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4473-1459-X