Psychosis and Human Rights: Conflicts in Mental Health Policy and Practice

Policy and Practice Poverty, equity, human rights and health

Those concerned with poverty and health have sometimes viewed equity and human rights as abstract concepts with little practical application, and links between health, equity and human rights have not been examined systematically. Examination of the concepts of poverty, equity, and human rights in relation to health and to each other demonstrates that they are closely linked conceptually and op...

Mental health policy and practice

The book provides a well documented basic overview of the main developments and dilemmas in the field. It contains eleven chapters, the first sketching conceptualisations of mental illness and public health issues over time, especially the divide between the medical model and the social causation model developed in antipsychiatry. The second chapter resumes developments in policy making on stra...

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Migration, mental health, and human rights.

The three themes of this special issue of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry—migration, mental health, and human rights—draw together matters that are intuitively linked. The capacity to migrate and experiences of migration are powerfully affected by the economic, social, and political circumstances of the migrant, specifically, by the extent to which the migrant’s human rights are...

Mental health policy and practice – second edition

This book takes you on a journey through key changes and development of mental health policy and practice in the UK. By combining case studies, reflections and analysis followed by exercises and examples of further reading, the evolution of contemporary mental health services is described. As a reader you become acquainted with the rationale behind the path of the current policy and implication...