1st Edition
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health Theory, Practice, and Professional Issues
Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health explores the theory and background of social justice in the context of mental health of individuals, cultures, and communities.
This ground-breaking book is a comprehensive text which defines what the ‘social justice agenda’ in therapeutic fields is and provides concrete and innovative descriptions of social justice in practice. With case studies and examples of real-life practice from a team of international contributors, it covers the full range of activities that mental health professionals need to deliver their services.
This text will be essential reading for students, early career professionals, and those training in psychiatry, psychotherapy, clinical, counselling, and community psychology, as well as senior practitioners.
1. Introduction to Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health: Theory, Practice, and Professional Issues
Rachel Tribe and Dinesh Bhugra
Theory
2. Social justice, mental illness, and human rights
Dinesh Bhugra and Mauro G. Carta
3. Exploring ‘othering’ and personhood as an antidote to power and privilege: going beyond the ‘tick-box’
Banjo Aromolaran and Elizabeth Wilson
4. Social exclusion as an issue of social justice
Jed Boardman
5. Politics of social justice and intersectionality
Julio Torales and Marcelo O’Higgins
6. Geopsychiatry, social justice, and human rights
Koravangattu Valsraj Menon, Anna Sri, Lisa Rampersad, Geraint Day, and Albert Persaud
7. Geopolitics of mental health in Africa
Jibril I. M. Handuleh and Albert Persaud
8. Social justice and health: a Caribbean vignette
Lisa Rampersad, Koravangattu Valsraj Menon, and Albert Persaud
9. Ethics, mental health, and social justice: implications of the climate and ecological crisis, past, present, and future
Tony Wainwright
10. Social justice and psychiatry’s social contract
Dinesh Bhugra, Daniel Poulter, Max Pemberton, and Rachel Tribe
Practice
11. Service user involvement and social justice: potential and limitations
Alison Faulkner
12. Therapeutic work with clients living in poverty: a social justice issue
Elvera Ballo
13. When the family is confronted with mental illness – challenges for family members and ways to support them
Miia Männikkö and Mari Helin
14. Social justice issues for international workers: tailoring staff support
Kate Thompson
15. Advocacy work within mental health: an issue of social justice or an inappropriate challenge to professional neutrality?
Rachel Tribe and Ben Amponsah
16. Social justice and policy: is there a role for mental health professionals?
Koravangattu Valsraj Menon and Albert Persaud
Professional issues
17. Is there a case for using the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) within clinical supervision?
Rachel Tribe and Claire Marshall
18. Social justice and mental health: reflexive personal development
Jeeda Alhakim and Lucia Berdondini
19. Training psychological therapists for social justice
Claire Marshall, Ishba Rehman, Laura Anne Winter, and Gabriel Wynn
20. Research from a social justice perspective: concepts and practice
Trishna Patel and Kenneth Gannon
21. Developing an integrated psycho-social understanding of distress from the psychotherapy and counselling field
Mick Cooper
22. Guidance for clinicians on working in partnership with community organisations
Kate Thompson, Rachel Tribe, and Sally Zlotowitz
23. Bill of rights for persons with mental illness
Dinesh Bhugra
Biography
Rachel Tribe is a clinician, researcher, consultant, and trainer. She is Professor of Applied Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of East London, and a trustee of three international mental health charities. She is the current Chair of Careif.
Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King’s College, London. He is currently Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2014 and a patron of Careif, an international mental health charity.
“Social justice for patients who have suffered discrimination and those with mental illnesses is an essential part of the services for mental healthcare professionals who provide and plan care. Social justice lies at the heart of equity and ensuring that our patients get the services they deserve and will be able to use. Social justice, similarly, focuses on equity of funding for both research and service provision. This book provides a comprehensive account of issues that are likely to shape the future development in this area. The book also provides a focus on definitions of social justice and its impact on therapeutic interventions. Authors from various disciplines come together to share their learning and experiences to provide an overview which will be helpful for service planning and provision. Anyone with an interest in this topic will find this book a valuable addition to this important subject.”
Afzal Javed, Immediate Past President World Psychiatric Association, Honorary Professor Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK
“Tribe and Bhugra have curated an impressive volume that serves as a well-researched accelerant to the burning problem of individualised critiques of inequity in the face of social injustice. The comfortable armchair of professional practice, however radical, is now in cinders, to be replaced by collective action to restructure our global society.”
Hári Sewell, Director of HS Consultancy UK and Member of the Scientific Board of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health
“Most would agree that social justice is a crucial component of mental health care, however its consideration sometimes generates more heat than light. In this book, Tribe and Bhugra have brought together a diverse, and knowledgeable, range of authors to create a comprehensive, scholarly, and practical overview of social justice issues in mental health which will be of substantial value to clinicians and academics alike.”
David Murphy, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Plymouth. 2019–2020 President of the British Psychological Society
