Citizenship & Mental Health

Citizenship & Mental Health tells a 20-year story of practice, theory, and research to support the full participation of persons with mental illnesses who, in many cases, have also been homeless, have criminal charges in their past, and are poor.

About the author

Michael Rowe, Ph.D., is a medical sociologist at the Yale School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. After a dual career in human services and as a writer, he completed a Ph.D. in sociology and conducted groundbreaking research on mental health outreach to people who are homeless. This work led directly to his twenty-year work on citizenship and mental health, and this book.

Summary

Citizenship & Mental Health tells a 20-year story of practice, theory, and research to support the full participation of persons with mental illnesses who, in many cases, have also been homeless, have criminal charges in their past, and are poor.

Additional text

Citizenship & Mental Health provides an in-depth look at how citizenship theory can benefit the mental health field.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Rowe, Michael (Associate Professor Rowe
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2015
• EAN: 9780199355389
• ISBN: 978-0-19-935538-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Psychiatry, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine