Associations between constructs related to social relationships and mental health conditions and symptoms: an umbrella review
mental health
I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
“Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person – and ignores the politics of their distress” This opinion piece by Sanah Ahsan has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “We are living, we’re told, through a ‘mental health crisis’ ….
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A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Sonic doom: how noise pollution kills thousands each year
Richard Godwin, writing in The Guardian : “Shortly after I sat down to read up on the auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health in the Lancet , the drilling began – an angry, jagged, intermittent frenzy of metal on plaster. Our downstairs neighbours…
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Challenging ideas in mental health
Take a new and different look at mental health via this free online course – Challenging ideas in mental health – from the Open University’s OpenLearn . The course invites you to think differently about life’s dilemmas by taking account of the views of all…
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The Great Psychotherapy Debate: the evidence for what makes psychotherapy work
The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate (by Bruce Wampold and Zac Imel) has been updated and revised to expand the presentation of the Contextual Model, which is derived from a scientific understanding of how humans heal in a social context and explains…
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