Gender and Mental Health

ISBN-13: 9780333687628 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 208 str.

Pauline M. Prior;Jo Campling

Opis

Gender & Mental Health is an exciting textbook written from a policy perspective. Based on up-to-date information from Europe and the United States, it focuses not only on the individual experience of mental disorder for both men and women, but also on a range of mental health policy issues, including law and crime. It will be extremely useful to a broad range of students (sociology, social policy and gender studies) and professionals (social work, nursing, legal and medical).

Spis treści

Introduction.- PART 1: MENTAL DISORDER Defining Mental Disorder.- The Population at Risk.- Treatment Approaches.- Gender and Normality.- PART 2: MENTAL HEALTH POLICY Defining Mental Health Policy.- Mental Health Services.- The Law and Mental Disorder.- Crime and Mental Disorder.- Conclusion.

O autorze

DR PAULINE PRIOR has worked both as a community development worker in Zambia and as a social worker in London and Belfast. She is the author of Mental Health and Politics in Northern Ireland and currently teaches social policy at the Queen's University of Belfast.