Raymond Jack

Women and Attempted Suicide (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992, Women and Attempted Suicide suggests that two factors have contributed to this failure - the neglect of gender issues and the influence of psychiatry on explanations of deviant behaviour. The book offers a new psycho-social explanation based on the theory of Causal Attribution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040125038
• Artikelnr.: 72289323

Autorenporträt

Raymond Jack spent much of his 30-year social work career in multi-disciplinary outreach teams providing psychiatric care in the community. Subsequently, he taught and researched in three UK universities and as Professor of Social Work at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge developed one of the first open learning routes to social work qualification in the UK.In addition to Women and Attempted Suicide, his publications include Residential Vs. Community Care (1998) and Empowerment in Community Care (1995). These publications make an enduring contribution to current debates on the role of gender, identity, individual agency, and control in mental health and social care practice and policy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Development of Theory and "Attempted Suicide" 1.
Epidemiology and the Neglect of Meaning 2. Current Theories of
Self-poisoning 3. A Social Psychology of Self-poisoning 4. Women and Sex
Role Socialisation 5. Learned Helplessness and Causal Attribution 6. Causal
Attribution and Female Self-poisoning 7. An Attributional Model of Female
Self-poisoning 8. Intervention