Full Description
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
This ground-breaking book is a comprehensive text which defines what the 'social justice agenda' in therapeutic fields is and provides concrete and innovative descriptions of social justice in practice. With case studies and examples of real-life practice from a team of international contributors, it covers the full range of activities that mental health professionals need to deliver their services.
This text will be essential reading for students, early career professionals, and those training in psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical, counselling, and community psychology, as well as senior practitioners.
Contents
1. Introduction to Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health: Theory, Practice, and Professional Issues
Rachel Tribe and Dinesh Bhugra
Theory
2. Social justice, mental illness, and human rights
Dinesh Bhugra and Mauro G. Carta
3. Exploring 'othering' and personhood as an antidote to power and privilege: going beyond the 'tick-box'
Banjo Aromolaran and Elizabeth Wilson
4. Social exclusion as an issue of social justice
Jed Boardman
5. Politics of social justice and intersectionality
Julio Torales and Marcelo O'Higgins
6. Geopsychiatry, social justice, and human rights
Koravangattu Valsraj Menon, Anna Sri, Lisa Rampersad, Geraint Day, and Albert Persaud
7. Geopolitics of mental health in Africa
Jibril I. M. Handuleh and Albert Persaud
8. Social justice and health: a Caribbean vignette
Lisa Rampersad, Koravangattu Valsraj Menon, and Albert Persaud
9. Ethics, mental health, and social justice: implications of the climate and ecological crisis, past, present, and future
Tony Wainwright
10. Social justice and psychiatry's social contract
Dinesh Bhugra, Daniel Poulter, Max Pemberton, and Rachel Tribe
Practice
11. Service user involvement and social justice: potential and limitations
Alison Faulkner
12. Therapeutic work with clients living in poverty: a social justice issue
Elvera Ballo
13. When the family is confronted with mental illness - challenges for family members and ways to support them
Miia Männikkö and Mari Helin
14. Social justice issues for international workers: tailoring staff support
Kate Thompson
15. Advocacy work within mental health: an issue of social justice or an inappropriate challenge to professional neutrality?
Rachel Tribe and Ben Amponsah
16. Social justice and policy: is there a role for mental health professionals?
Koravangattu Valsraj Menon and Albert Persaud
Professional issues
17. Is there a case for using the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) within clinical supervision?
Rachel Tribe and Claire Marshall
18. Social justice and mental health: reflexive personal development
Jeeda Alhakim and Lucia Berdondini
19. Training psychological therapists for social justice
Claire Marshall, Ishba Rehman, Laura Anne Winter, and Gabriel Wynn
20. Research from a social justice perspective: concepts and practice
Trishna Patel and Kenneth Gannon
21. Developing an integrated psycho-social understanding of distress from the psychotherapy and counselling field
Mick Cooper
22. Guidance for clinicians on working in partnership with community organisations
Kate Thompson, Rachel Tribe, and Sally Zlotowitz
23. Bill of rights for persons with mental illness
Dinesh Bhugra
