Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health

Edited by Marta Elliott

ISBN13: 9781800378476

Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

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Published: 16/12/2022

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This engaging Research Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research on social factors and mental health, examining how important it is to consider the social context in which mental health issues develop. It illustrates how social factors contribute to problems with mental health and how society, in turn, responds to people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Expert contributors provide an in-depth review of the history of social factors and mental health, and also discuss how boundaries between disorders such as bipolar and borderline personality disorder can be blurred and contested. Past and current social factors are thoroughly reviewed such as refugee mental health, stressors linked to discrimination based on race, gender or sexual orientation, exposure to police violence and the impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The challenges and stigma faced by those diagnosed with disorders, alongside prejudices and discrimination in the health care system are also examined. The Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health will be an excellent resource for scholars studying social issues in relation to mental health or illness and researchers wishing to take an interdisciplinary approach by studying biopsychosocial factors. Mental health providers interested in well-rounded learning and those people experiencing and living with mental illness will find the alternative viewpoints to mainstream psychiatry and psychology informative and illuminating.
Contents: Introduction to Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health xv Marta Elliott 1 The historical legacy of the sociology of mental health 1 Allan V. Horwitz 2 Seekers and providers: medicalization of circumstantial sadness and fear 20 Sigita Doblytė 3 Bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or borderline bipolar? Negotiating the blurred boundaries between psychosocial and biomedical categories 34 Rhiannon Lane 4 The digital forces of medicalization: the role of apps for mental health 53 Antonio Maturo and Marta Gibin 5 Obscuring air pollution and pesticides’ contribution to depression: the role of the Canadian and New Zealand governments 66 Manuel Vallée 6 Refugee mental health: differential trauma exposure and gendered expectations as explanatory mechanisms for disparities 82 Jessica R. Goodkind, Julia Meredith Hess, Ryeora Choe, Yuka Doherty, Meredith A. Blackwell, David T. Lardier, and Deborah I. Bybee 7 Stratified access to care and mental health implications for pregnant and postpartum immigrants in the US‒Mexico border region 101 Victoria De Anda and Carina Heckert 8 Racial identity and the racial paradox in mental health 115 Michael Hughes, K. Jill Kiecolt, and Verna M. Keith 9 Does racial identity buffer against poor mental health among Black Americans? Examining everyday discrimination and the nexus of ethnicity and nativity 136 Dawne M. Mouzon, Breanna D. Brock, Ebony D. Johnson, and Thalya Reyes 10 Beyond immigrant generation: religious approach, perceptions of discrimination, and the stress process model 159 Sarah Shah 11 Stigma visibility and mental health among lesbians and gay men 176 Michael J. Doane and Marta Elliott 12 Disability, ableism, and mental health 201 Robyn Lewis Brown and Gabriele Ciciurkaite 13 The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on stress: a cross-national analysis of economic and public health policies and individual characteristics 218 James M. Ragsdale, Megan LaMotte, and Marta Elliott 14 School shootings: the social dynamics of mental disorder 233 Anne Nassauer 15 The social epidemiology of adverse childhood experiences 251 Heather A. Turner and Deirdre A. Colburn 16 Police violence and mental health: the uncharted empirical inquiry of a long-standing societal problem 268 Jonathan Marsh, Dania Lerman, Jordan DeVylder, and Lisa Fedina 17 Impact of relationship to the perpetrator and self-blame on college women’s well-being following sexual assault 289 Ann E. Jones 18 The bitter and the sweet revisited: religious resources, spiritual struggles, and psychological distress 306 Christopher G. Ellison and Kevin J. Flannelly 19 College student mental health: current trends and implications for higher education 325 Sasha Zhou and Daniel Eisenberg 20 Coping with the “pains of imprisonment”: the interaction of institutional conditions and individual experiences on inmate mental health 348 Timothy G. Edgemon 21 The impact of stigma on the well-being of people diagnosed with mental illness: why stigma persists and why it remains consequential 366 Jason Schnittker 22 Understanding inequity in mental health care: the role of discrimination in providing and experiencing care 382 Annahita Ehsan, Charlotte Woodhead, Preety Das, Rebecca Rhead and Stephani L. Hatch 23 Trans men’s access to and discrimination in mental healthcare in the Southeastern United States 409 Baker A. Rogers and Austin H. Johnson 24 Beyond psychoanalysis: psychodynamic psychotherapy in a biomedical and behavioral world 428 Dena T. Smith 25 Withdrawal, not relapse: analysis of an online forum for people coming off antidepressant medications 445 Pınar Üstel 26 Open Dialogue approach to treating serious mental illness 461 Rhoshel K. Lenroot, Marcello A. Maviglia, Ming Tai-Seale, and Douglas Ziedonis 27 Community-based mental health care 482 René Keet Index
  • Medical sociology
  • Mental health services
  • Professional & Vocational
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