Examining mental health through social constructionism : the language of mental health / Michelle O'Reilly, Jessica Nina Lester

Author:: O'Reilly, Michelle
Published:: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Physical Description:: xvii, 366 pages ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators:: Lester, Jessica Nina

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The language of mental health

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The Critical Turn to Language in the Field of Mental Health -- 2.History of Mental Health and Mental Illness -- 3.Classification Systems and Diagnostic Processes -- 4.Critical Perspectives in Psychiatry: Anti- and Critical Psychiatry -- 5.Models of Disability and the Translation to Psychiatric Categories -- 6.Constructions of Stigma -- 7.The Rhetoric of Evidence-Based Practice -- 8.Language-Based Methodologies for Studying Mental Health -- 9.Empirical Examples: Language, Mental Health, and Therapeutic Approaches -- 10.Empirical Examples: Language and Child Mental Health -- 11.Conclusions: Thinking About the Future of Mental Health.

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ISBN:

9783319600949
331960094X

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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