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This book offers an exploration of academic and applied psychology, explains critical realism to psychologists and shows how the interface between the natural and social worlds, and the internal and external, can be used to examine human life.

A comprehensive introduction to mental health providing readers with short overviews of 70 key theories, concepts and themes associated with mental health. Each entry is summarised succinctly in a series of easily digestible yet expertly written entries.

A comprehensive introduction to mental health providing readers with short overviews of 70 key theories, concepts and themes associated with mental health. Each entry is summarised succinctly in a series of easily digestible yet expertly written entries.

A thought-provoking and engaging investigation into the strengths and weaknesses of identity politics and the role they play in today's world. Written by Professor David Pilgrim, an experienced academic researcher in psychology and sociology and an accomplished author, who won the 2006 British Medical Association's Medical Book of the Year award.

Colin Dawson, The College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth, UK How have sociologists theorized and researched mental health and illness?In what ways do sociologists approach this topic differently to those from other disciplines?How do we understand mental health problems in their social context?This bestselling book provides a clear overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness, and helps students to develop a cr...

Between 1910 and the mid-1920s, more than sixty black students from the South bravely traveled north to Ferris Institute, a small, mostly white school in Big Rapids, Michigan. They came to enroll in college programs and college preparatory courses-and to escape, if only temporarily, the daily and ubiquitous indignities suffered under the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. They excelled in their studies and became accomplished in their professional fie...

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Now in an updated fifth edition, this book provides readers with overviews of all the key theories, concepts and terminology associated with mental health, summarising them succinctly in a series of easily digestible yet expertly written entries.

Now in an updated fifth edition, this book provides readers with overviews of all the key theories, concepts and terminology associated with mental health, summarising them succinctly in a series of easily digestible yet expertly written entries.

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Most analysis of the public policy crisis of CSA focusses on perpetrators, the detection of their actions and the prevention of further criminality. This book goes beyond this to examine the contexts which lay beyond perpetrator motives and action.

Most analysis of the public policy crisis of CSA focusses on perpetrators, the detection of their actions and the prevention of further criminality. This book goes beyond this to examine the contexts which lay beyond perpetrator motives and action.

All groups tell stories, but some groups have the power to impose their stories on others, to label others, stigmatize others, paint others as undesirables-and to have these stories presented as scientific fact, God's will, or wholesome entertainment. Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors examines the origins and significance of several longstanding antiblack stories and the caricatures and stereotypes that support them. Here readers will f...

David Pilgrim PhD is Professor of Health & Social Policy in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology at the University of Liverpool.

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This bestselling text provides a complete and concise overview of mental health and all the issues that surround it from a theoretical and practical perspective.

This four-volume Major Work compiles literature which deals with conditions that - in recent parlance in Western societies - have come to be labelled as 'common mental health problems'. The articles within these volumes explore the causes and understandings and prevention and treatment of mental health problems, drawing upon philosophical, conceptual, historical and empirical discussions of fear and sadness. The set focuses on ontology (what e...

The emergence of Thatcherism around 1980, which ushered in a period of neo-liberalism in British politics that still resonates today, led musicians, like other artists, to respond to their context of production. This book uses the early work of one of these musicians, Elvis Costello, to explore the relationship between popular music and politics in one historical period. Throughout the book examples are provided of Costello's songs and how the...

`This is a very important book.... This is a book that clearly challenges those of us who subscribe to a view of the self in relationship with society to examine ourselves and our practices and respond appropriately' - Self & Society This pioneering book demonstrates that counselling and psychotherapy cannot be separated from the social conditions and context in which practitioners and their clients operate. Until now, no single text has brou...

A Short Introduction to Clinical Psychology gives an accessible overview of the field for psychology students and anyone considering training as a clinical psychologist. Setting out the theoretical and practical dimensions of clinical psychology, the authors examine its origins, knowledge base and applications with different client groups, in different contexts and through different modalities (individuals, groups, couples, families and orga...