An Introduction to Social Psychiatry

by A . S . Henderson (Author)

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  1988

  $5.15

  An overview of the progress that has been made in mental health to establish whether mental disorders are induced by happenings in the patient's social environment. An account is given of the methods used to collect data and to measure mental illness and its epidemiology. Life-event research and social support is analyzed as are the procedures used by GP's to diagnose, treat and prevent mental illness. The author assesses the future of social psychiatry and its relation to other branches of this discipline.