Mental Health Care in Japan

ISBN-13: 9780415690683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 148 str.

Ruth Taplin; Sandra J. Lawman

Opis

Mental health, including widespread depression and a very high suicide rate, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time the mental health system in Japan has historically been more restrictive than elsewhere in the world. This book looks at the challenges of mental illness in Japan, including deficiencies in health care such as the abuse of patients and the institutionalisation of long term patients in mental hospitals. The book discusses the latest legislation to deal with mental health care, and explores the various ideas about rehabilitation into the work force and the community. It goes on to look at the social stigma attached to the mentally disabled in Japan, and touches upon the issue of counselling after the recent earthquake.

Spis treści

1. Mental Health Care in Japan - An Introduction  2. The Mental Health Policy and Services: Where We Stand  3. Reintegrating the mentally ill into society and work  4. How Mental Hospitals Treat their Patients, and Programmes for Rehabilitation into the Community  5. National Federation of Families for the Mentally Ill in Japan: Historical and Future Perspectives  6. An Overview of the User Movement in Britain and Japan  7. Attitudes to mental illness in Japan and Britain  Postscript

O autorze

Ruth Taplin is Director of the Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies, London, and is Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law (www.ijebl.co.uk).

Sandra J. Lawman is an Associate for the Shaftesbury Partnership.