Preventing mental illness : past, present and future / Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long, Matthew Smith, editors.
2019
RA790 .P74 2019
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Title
Preventing mental illness : past, present and future / Despo Kritsotaki, Vicky Long, Matthew Smith, editors.
ISBN
9783319986999 (electronic book)
3319986996 (electronic book)
9783319986982
3319986988
3319986996 (electronic book)
9783319986982
3319986988
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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RA790 .P74 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.19689
Summary
This book provides an overview of a diverse array of preventive strategies relating to mental illness, and identifies their achievements and shortcomings. The chapters in this collection illustrate how researchers, clinicians and policy makers drew inspiration from divergent fields of knowledge and practice: from eugenics, genetics and medication to mental hygiene, child guidance, social welfare, public health and education; from risk management to radical and social psychiatry, architectural design and environmental psychology. It highlights the shifting patterns of biological, social and psychodynamic models, while adopting a gender perspective and considering professional developments as well as changing social and legal contexts, including deinstitutionalisation and social movements. Through vigorous research, the contributors demonstrate that preventive approaches to mental health have a long history, and point to the conclusion that it might well be possible to learn from such historical attempts. The book also explores which of these approaches are worth considering in future and which are best confined to the past. Within this context, the book aims at stoking and informing debate and conversation about how to prevent mental illness and improve mental health in the years to come. Chapters 3, 10, and 12 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2019).
Added Author
Kritsotaki, Despo.
Long, Vicky, 1978-
Smith, Matthew.
Long, Vicky, 1978-
Smith, Matthew.
Series
Mental health in historical perspective.
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Preventing Mental Illness : Past, Present and Future.
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