Beschreibung:
Rob Poole is Professor of Social Psychiatry, School of Social Sciences, Bangor University; Co-Director, Centre for Mental Health and Society, North Wales; and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales.
Draws together evidence that poverty causes serious mental illness and gives recommendations as to what can be done about this.
Preface; 1. Severe mental illness and social factors; 2. Poverty; 3. Constellations of disadvantage; 4. Depression and anxiety; 5. Genetics; 6. Substance misuse; 7. Mechanisms; 8. Stigma; 9. Recovery; 10. Working with poverty; 11. Afterword; References; Index.