Social Inclusion and Mental Health: Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

Jed Boardman (King's College London),Helen Killaspy (University College London),Gillian Mezey (St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London)

Social Inclusion and Mental Health: Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
Format
Paperback
Publisher
RCPsych/Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 November 2022
Pages
400
ISBN
9781911623595

Social Inclusion and Mental Health: Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion

Jed Boardman (King's College London),Helen Killaspy (University College London),Gillian Mezey (St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London)

People with mental health conditions are among the most socially excluded groups in society. Mental health conditions are influenced by the social environment, which in turn shapes our social and cultural responses to the people who experience them. Much of what mental health practitioners do is ‘essentially social’ and the effects of their interventions are hampered by the marginalised status of many of the people that they see. This book documents the ways in which people with mental health conditions are excluded from participating in society and offers some pointers as to how this may be reversed. It highlights the need to reduce mental health inequalities and to consider the importance of material inequalities and social injustices faced by people experiencing mental ill-health. Whilst the challenges are considerable and the solutions wide-ranging, mental health practitioners can play a significant role in facilitating the social inclusion of those with mental health conditions.

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