Read more
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.
List of contents
1. Introduction to
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health: Theory, Practice, and Professional IssuesRachel 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'Higgins6. 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 TribePractice
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 Ballo13. 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 Amponsah16. Social justice and policy: is there a role for mental health professionals?
Koravangattu Valsraj Menon and Albert PersaudProfessional issues
17. Is there a case for using the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) within clinical supervision?
Rachel Tribe and Claire Marshall18. Social justice and mental health: reflexive personal development
Jeeda Alhakim and Lucia Berdondini19. Training psychological therapists for social justice
Claire Marshall, Ishba Rehman, Laura Anne Winter, and Gabriel Wynn20. 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 Zlotowitz23. Bill of rights for persons with mental illness
Dinesh Bhugra
About the author
Rachel Tribe is a clinician, researcher, consultant, and trainer. She is Professor of Applied Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of East London, and a trustee of three international mental health charities. She is the current Chair of Careif.
Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King's College, London. He is currently Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2014 and a patron of Careif, an international mental health charity.
Summary
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.
