Social Inclusion and Mental Health

RCPsych Publications, 6/1/2010
EAN 9781904671879, ISBN10: 190467187X

Paperback, 400 pages, 23.6 x 15.7 x 2 cm
Language: English

Medicine is changing, towards a greater emphasis on self-care and patient choice. But truly collaborative care is hampered by inequality, exacerbated by stigmatisation and discrimination. These experiences of social exclusion can block the road to recovery for people with mental illness. People with mental illness are among the most socially excluded in our society. This book is concerned with social exclusion and mental disorder and the steps that psychiatrists and mental health workers can take to facilitate the social inclusion of people with mental health problems. Alongside contributions from psychiatrists and mental health professionals, people with mental illness and their carers write about the helplessness they sometimes feel when faced with mental health services, the challenges of caring for someone, and what might be done to aid the journey to recovery. The book encompasses a wealth of experience and evidence supported by research and everyday practice. This is an invaluable resource for mental health professionals, medical educators, policy makers, mental health service providers and charities.

Contents
Foreword
Part I. What Is Social Exclusion?
1. Introduction
2. Concepts of social exclusion
3. Social exclusion of people with mental health problems and learning disabilities
key aspects
4. Policy and social exclusion
5. How is social exclusion relevant to psychiatry?
6. Socially inclusive working across the psychiatric subspecialties
Part II. Social Exclusion
The Scope of the Problem
7. The extent of disadvantage, poverty and social exclusion in the UK
8. How are people with mental health problems excluded?
9. Social exclusion in specific social groups and individuals with mental health problems
10. Social exclusion and people with mental health problems
developing a clearer picture
11. Finding acceptance
the experiences of people who use mental health services
12. Social inclusion from the carer's perspective
Part III. Working towards Inclusive Psychiatry
13. Social inclusion
research and evidence-based practice
14. Implications of social inclusion for individual practice
15. Socially inclusive mental health services
what will they look like?
16. Training for socially inclusive practice
17. Community mental health and the inclusion-exclusion seesaw
18. Socially inclusive practice and psychiatry in the 21st century.