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Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health pp 81–104Cite as

Issues in Mental Health Assessment

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Deviations from “normal” emotional functioning have been recognized and documented for as long as written accounts of history have existed. Parables concerning mental disorder appear in the written works of all major religions, and statutes concerning the mentally ill were a part of early Roman law (Eaton, 1980). Depending on the particular historical period in which they lived, those whose behavior did not conform to accepted norms were labeled variously as possessed, holy, mad, or insane. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as mental disorders increasingly came under the purview of medical science, the previous broad categories of mental disorder (e.g., raving, melancholic, lunatic, idiot; Jarvis, 1971) began to be subdivided into more specific “diagnostic” categories. This categorization process, or nosology, has continued to the present day and is currently embodied in its most specific form as the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994), and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10; World Health Organization, 1992), which describe the symptoms and diagnostic criteria of more than 250 psychiatric disorders. In this chapter, we briefly describe the historical roots, current practical issues, and future directions of the assessment of mental health in community-based populations. Our focus on macro, community-level assessment stems, in part, from the fact that sociologists have generated much of the literature and instrument development for group mental health assessment. In general, we focus on instruments designed for, and studies conducted with, adults.

Biosocial and sociocultural factors leave imprints on mental health which are discernible when viewed from the panoramic perspectives provided by a large population.

Srole (1962)

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    Galen E. Switzer

  2. Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylavania, 15213, USA

    Mary Amanda Dew

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794, USA

    Evelyn J. Bromet

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Switzer, G.E., Dew, M.A., Bromet, E.J. (1999). Issues in Mental Health Assessment. In: Aneshensel, C.S., Phelan, J.C. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-36223-1_5

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