A Critical Mental Health Primer

Towards Informed Choice in Education, Social Services, and Healthcare

Jan N. DeFehr (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2025
Canadian Scholars (Verlag)
978-1-77338-457-3 (ISBN)

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In A Critical Mental Health Primer, Dr. Jan DeFehr, university professor with over twenty years of clinical social work practitioner experience, provides an overview of critical mental health scholarship, arguing that providing access to critical mental health knowledge is a prerequisite for ethical practice.Through a peer-reviewed critique of psychiatry and its broad field of mental health, topics explored include scientific critique of evidence; the potential long-term harm caused by mental disorder diagnoses; key concerns related to lack of transparency and procedural justice; anti-colonial critiques of the mental health system; critiques concerning psychiatric drugs and the DSM; ethical standards of care; and practical guidance for supporting one another outside of the dominant mental health model.

A Critical Mental Health Primer is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate level mental health courses across social work, education, health sciences studies, and nursing programs, in both universities and colleges.

Jan DeFehr, MSW, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Winnipeg.

AcknowledgementsChapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Scientific Critique of Mental Disorder Diagnosis
Chapter 3 Mental Disorder Diagnosis and Potential for Harm
Chapter 4 Anticolonial Critique of Mental Health Premises and Practices
Chapter 5 Critique Concerning Psychiatric Drugs
Chapter 6 Professional Ethics: Standards of Care and Subjugation
Chapter 7 Non-pathologizing Ways of Helping
Chapter 8 Building Public Access to Critical Mental Health Knowledge: Tools for Informed Choice

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Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2025
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 248 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-77338-457-0 / 1773384570
ISBN-13	978-1-77338-457-3 / 9781773384573
Zustand	Neuware