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Gender and Mental Health

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  1. Pauline M. Prior
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  1. Jo Campling
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  • Incorporates latest findings from psychiatric morbidity studies in the USA and the UK
    Includes new material on masculinity theory applied to definitions of mental disorders
    Includes a section on crime and mental disorder
    Presents material usually found only in medical literature in a form accessible to the nonmedical reader

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 1-11

  3. Mental Disorder

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Defining Mental Disorder

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 15-33

    3. The Population at Risk

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 34-50

    4. Approaches to Treatment

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 51-76

    5. Gender and Normality

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 77-95

  4. Mental Health Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Defining Mental Health Policy

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 99-115

    3. Mental Health Services

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 116-137

    4. The Law and Mental Disorder

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 138-157

    5. Crime and Mental Disorder

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 158-176

    6. A Final Word

      • Pauline M. Prior
      Pages 177-180

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 181-198
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About this book

Gender & Mental Health is an exciting textbook written from a policy perspective. Based on up-to-date information from Europe and the United States, it focuses not only on the individual experience of mental disorder for both men and women, but also on a range of mental health policy issues, including law and crime. It will be extremely useful to a broad range of students (sociology, social policy and gender studies) and professionals (social work, nursing, legal and medical).
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About the author

DR PAULINE PRIOR has worked both as a community development worker in Zambia and as a social worker in London and Belfast. She is the author of Mental Health and Politics in Northern Ireland and currently teaches social policy at the Queen's University of Belfast.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender and Mental Health

  • Authors: Pauline M. Prior

  • Editors: Jo Campling

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27671-4

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Pauline M. Prior 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 208

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Social Work

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