Critical Perspectives on Mental Health - Hardcover

Coppock, Vicki; Hopton, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857288793 ISBN 13: 9781857288797

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice.  This text will be essential reading for students and those working in the social work and mental health care professions.

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Review:

""Using the British mental health services as a case study, Coppock and Hopton critically review the various social, political, and intellectual developments that have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services" --Book News, August 2000."

Synopsis:

This text seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice. Using the British mental health services as a case study, the book critically reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services. By evaluating the impact which new social and political movements of the 60s and 70s such as anti-racism, anti-psychiatry and radical feminism had on psychiatric thought, the authors argue that these movements led to challenges to the legitimacy of psychiatry. Using theoretical frameworks borrowed from critical criminology, these competing critiques are evaluated and the problems which affect the practice of mental health care in the 21st century are considered.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1857288793
• ISBN 13: 9781857288797
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224