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Mental Health Today ... and Tomorrow

Mental Health Today ... and Tomorrow

David Crepaz-Keay

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Abstract

This handbook explores the whole lifespan, with chapters examining early interventions and mental health and wellbeing within school settings, mental health in the workplace, and finally the issues faced as people enter later life.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover i
Imprint ii
Contributors iv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: No time like the present 3
Chapter 2: Mental well-being: concepts and controversies in mental health policy 17
Chapter 3: Early investment in children’s mental health 33
Chapter 4: Building resilience and improving mental health and 41
Chapter 5: From diagnosis, disease and disorder to decision making, disability and democratic rights – time for a paradigm shift? 55
Chapter 6: What is ‘parity of esteem’? \nIs it a useful concept? 67
Chapter 7: Mental health and work 75
Chapter 8: A crisis of meaning? Searching for an antidote to the pathological picturing 83
Chapter 9: Is old age a mental illness? 95
Chapter 10: The future for mental 105
Chapter 11: Digital: reality 117
Chapter 12: Self-management 129
Chapter 13: Speaking about ourselves: finding language to make sense of personal and collective identities 139
Chapter 14: Service user involvement and peer support: yesterday, today and tomorrow 149
Chapter 15: Lessons from Lille 157