Critical Issues in Mental Health

Professor Phil Barker is Honorary Professor at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Poppy Buchanan-Barker is Director of Clan Unity International, Fife, Scotland. Dr Anthony Colombo is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Social and Community Studies, Coventry University, England. Vicki Coppock is Reader in Social Work and Mental Health at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. Dr David T. Evans is Senior Lecturer at Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Dr Derek P. Farrell is Lecturer in Mental Health at the College of Medicine, Dentistry& Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, England. Professor Suman Fernando is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, European Centre for Study of Migration and Social Care (MASC) at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, England. and Visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, London, England. Dr Lesley Henderson is Deputy Director of the Centre for Media, Globalisation and Risk and Lecturer in Sociology and Communications in the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, England. Professor Lucy Johnstone is Clinical Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist and currently Academic Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate at Bristol University, England. David Pilgrim is Professor of Mental Health Policy at University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England. Anne Rogers is Professor of the Sociology of Health Care Primary Care Group, School of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manchester, England. Francesca Tummey is Regional Development Worker for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services at Care Services Improvement Partnership West Midlands, Birmingham, England.

This thought provoking text explores some of the most contentious issues in mental health today. Written by top authors in the field, each chapter explores a key subject area which is often ignored or avoided in mental health. Stimulating and lively in style, it is essential reading for all mental health students and practitioners.This thought provoking text explores some of the most contentious issues in mental health today. Written by top authors in the field, each chapter explores a key subject area which is often ignored or avoided in mental health. Stimulating and lively in style, it is essential reading for all mental health students and practitioners.