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Introduction to Part I: approaches to mental health and illness | |
An overview of sociological perspectives on the definitions, causes, and responses to mental health and illness | |
The measurement of mental disorder | |
The prevalence of mental illness | |
Biological approaches to psychiatric disorders: a sociological approach | |
Psychological approaches to mental illness | |
Sociological approaches to mental illness | |
Viewing mental health from the complete state paradigm | |
Mental health systems in cross-cultural context | |
Introduction to Part II: the social context of mental health and illness | |
Stressors, stress, and distress | |
Social support and mental health | |
Work and unemployment as stressors | |
Socio-economic stratification and mental disorder | |
Gender and mental health: do males and females have different amounts or types of problems? | |
Race and mental health: patterns and challenges | |
African American women and mental well-being: the triangulation of race, gender, and socioeconomic status | |
Marital status and mental health | |
Stress and distress in childhood and adolescence | |
Psychopathology and risky sexual behaviors among black adolescents | |
Well-being across the life course | |
Mental health and terrorism | |
Introduction to Part III: mental health systems and policy | |
Understandng the context and dynamic processes of mental health treatment | |
Cultural diversity and mental health treatment | |
The mental health consumers/survivors movement in the US | |
Mental illness and the criminal justice system Virginia | |
Mental health in organizations and systems | |
Integrating service delivery systems for persons with severe mental illness | |
Consequences of managed care for mental health care providers | |
Mental health and the changing context of HIV | |
Labelling and stigma | |
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