Rob Poole, Robert Higgo, Catherine A. Robinson

Mental Health and Poverty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Draws together evidence that poverty causes serious mental illness and gives recommendations as to what can be done about this.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9780521143967
• ISBN-10: 0521143969
• Artikelnr.: 39631426

Autorenporträt

Rob Poole is Professor of Social Psychiatry, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University; Co-Director, Centre for Mental Health and Society, North Wales; and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Severe mental illness and social factors
2. Poverty
3. Constellations of disadvantage
4. Depression and anxiety
5. Genetics
6. Substance misuse
7. Mechanisms
8. Stigma
9. Recovery
10. Working with poverty
11. Afterword
References
Index.