David Pilgrim & Anne Rogers 
The SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness 

The
SAGE Handbook of Mental Health and Illness is a landmark volume, which integrates the conceptual, empirical and evidence-based threads of mental health as an area of study, research and practice. It approaches mental health from two perspectives – firstly as a positive state of well-being and personal and social functioning and secondly as psychological difference or abnormality in its social context.

Unique features include:

– a broad and inclusive view of the field, providing depth and breadth for the reader

– a team of international, multi-disciplinary editors and contributors, and

– discussion of the many of the unresolved debates in the field about constructs and causes.

The Handbook will be an invaluable resource for postgraduate students, academics and researchers studying mental health in disciplines such as psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing and sociology.

Table of Content

PART ONE: MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISORDER IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

Editors′ Introduction

The Limits to Psychiatric and Behavioural Genetics – Angus Clarke

The Challenge of Measurement of Mental Disorder in Community Surveys – Jerome C Wakefield and Mark F Schmitz

Mental Health, Positive Psychology and the Sociology of the Self – Benedikt Rogge

Sociological Aspects of the Emotions – Gillian Bendelow

Ethnicity, Race and Mental Disorder in the UK – James Nazroo and Karen Iley

Gender Matters: Differences in Depression between Women and Men – Jane M Ussher

The Diagnosis of Depression in an International Context – Renata Kokanovic

Stressors and Experienced Stress – Susan Roxburgh

Religious Beliefs and Mental Health – Scott Schieman

Applications and Extensions of the Stress Process Model

Children, Culture and Mental Illness – Brea Perry and Bernice A Pescosolido

Public Knowledge and Stigma toward Childhood Problems

Stigma and Mental Disorder – Graham Scambler

Medicalization and Mental Health – Sigrun Olafsdottir

The Critique of Medical Expansion and a Consideration of How Markets, National States, and Citizens Matter

Danger and Diagnosed Mental Disorder – David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers

PART TWO: CLINICAL AND POLICY TOPICS

Editors′ Introduction

Biological Explanations for and Responses to Madness – Philip Thomas

The Psychology of Psychosis – Richard Bentall

Sociological Aspects of Personality Disorder – Nick Manning

Sociological Aspects of Substance Misuse – Michael Bloor and Alison Munro

Sociological Aspects of Psychotropic Medication – David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Jonathan Gabe

Common Mental Health Problems – Carolyn Chew-Graham

Primary Care and Health Inequalities in the UK

Promoting Mental Health – Helen Herrman

Institutionalization and De-Institutionalization – Andrew Scull

Action for Change in the UK – Peter Campbell and Diana Rose

Thirty Years of the User/Survivor Movement

Recovery in Mental Illness – Ann Mc Cranie

The Roots, Meanings and Implementations of a ′New′ Services Movement

Mental Health Problems, Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion – Jenny Secker

A UK Perspective

Social Network Influence in Mental Health and Illness, Service Use and Settings, and Treatment Outcomes – Bernice A Pescosolido

About the author

Bernice A. Pescosolido is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Professor Pescosolido received a B.A. from the University of Rhode Island in 1974 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1982. She has focused her research and teaching on social issues in health, illness, and healing.

Pescosolido’s research agenda addresses how social networks connect individuals to their communities and to institutional structures, providing the ‘wires’ through which people’s attitudes and actions are influenced. This agenda encompasses three basic areas: health care services, stigma, and suicide research. In the early 1990s, Pescosolido developed the Network-Episode Model which was designed to focus on how individuals come to recognize, respond to the onset of health problems, and use health care services. Specifically, it has provided new insights to understanding the patterns and pathways to care, adherence to treatment and the outcomes of health care. As a result, she has served on advisory agenda-setting efforts at the NIMH, NCI, NHLBI, NIDRR, OBSSR and presented at congressional briefings.

In the area of stigma research, Pescosolido initiated the first major, national study of stigma of mental illness in the U.S. in over 40 years. Along with Bruce Link, she led a team of researchers that analyzed this data, producing groundwork for the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health. Currently, she and her colleagues are developing a model on the underlying roots of stigma, designed to provide a scientific foundation for new efforts to alter this basic barrier to care. They are now completing a series of papers based on the National Stigma Study – Children, the first national study of stigma towards children with mental health problems. With funding from the Fogarty International Center, she is also leading a team of researchers in the first international study of stigma. This 18 country study follows up on the insights from the WHO’s International Study of Schizophrenia which pointed to cross-cultural variations in stigma as a fundamental source of differences in outcomes.

Drawing from the same theoretical insights that guide her work on the influence of community on the use of health care, Pescosolido is a leading sociological researcher on suicide. Her early work examined claims on and evaluated the utility of official suicide statistics. Her work also has focused on the way that religion and family ties can protect or push individuals to suicide as a solution to problems. Currently, she is working with researchers at the CDC to bring together the best insights from psychiatric and sociological research on suicide. With Arthur Kleinman, she helped to shape and write the chapter on social and cultural influences in the 2002 IOM report, Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative.

In 2005, she was presented with the American Sociological Association’s Leo G. Reeder Award for a career of distinguished scholarship in medical sociology. Her address (published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2006, 47:189-208) takes on the challenge of synthesizing social and biological issues in understanding current challenges in epidemiology and health services research.

Professor Pescosolido has received numerous grants from federal and private sources including the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, the Mac Arthur Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. From 1989 to 1995, she held a Research Scientist Development Award and from 1997 through 2003 held an Independent Scientist Award, both from the NIMH. She is the founder and director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research as well as the IU Strategic Directions Initiative′s CONCEPT I Program in Health and Medicine. Both are designed to enhance the research and training of Indiana University′s faculty and students to contribute to the national agenda on health and health care. In 2003, she received the Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award fr