Social Perspective : : The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice / / Richard U'Ren.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: U'Ren, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic conditions, and the social stratification system all contribute to individual well-being or disorder. U'Ren investigates how access to income, education, and social affiliations buffers individuals against stress and facilitates coping. He demonstrates that those who lack access to such resources suffer the poorest health and the greatest mental distress - a problem that has only grown more challenging with rising inequality. Adding a new dimension to understandings of mental health, mental illness, and psychological distress, Social Perspective offers clinicians a concise account of society's impact on the individual.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Social Perspective -- 2. Socioeconomic Status, Psychiatric Disorder, and Psychological Distress -- 3. Social Class -- 4. Growing Inequality: Causes and Consequences -- 5. Work and Whitehall -- 6. Links between Socioeconomic Status, Well-Being, and Distress -- 7. Class Differences in Psychotherapy -- 8. The DSM, Disorder, and Distress -- 9. Social Perspective in Practice -- 10. In Closing -- Appendix: Reading for a Social Perspective -- Notes -- References -- Index