Underpinning a general pattern of higher suicide rates in men is the assumption that men do
not ask for help or utilize the health-care system during times of psychological distress …

Sarah Nettleton's The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text,
popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the …

Description: Second Edition.| New York: Routledge, 2020.| Series: Routledge international
handbooks| Revised edition of Routledge handbook of disability studies, 2012.| Includes …

The eleventh edition of Sociology of Mental Disorder presents the major issues and
research findings on the influence of race, social class, gender, and age on the incidence …

There has been a tendency by some social scientists and the media to claim that in
advanced western societies like Britain and the US mental illness has been increasing and …

Conflict with the family about sexual orientation and gender diversity is a key risk factor
associated with poor mental health in youth populations. Findings presented here derive …

Human beings are meaning-making creatures, who not only suffer in an immediately felt
way, but who can interpret and articulate their discontents through the use of language. The …

The last 40 years has seen a significant shift from state commitment to asylum-based mental
health care to a mixed economy of care in a variety of locations. In the wake of this …

While empirical, scientific research has much to offer to the practice-oriented therapist in
training, it is often difficult to effectively engage the trainee, beginning practitioner, or …

En las últimas décadas se ha intensificado la ocurrencia de un conjunto de fenómenos que
llaman la atención de científicos sociales e historiadores enfocados en la medicina: los …