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.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgement
• List of Editors
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Mental Health and Mental Disorder in Social Context
• 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, 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, 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: Applications and Extensions of the Stress Process Model - Scott Schieman
• Children, Culture, and Mental Illness: Public Knowledge and Stigma toward Childhood Problems - Brea Perry, Bernice A. Pescosolido
• Stigma and Mental Disorder - Graham Scambler
• Medicalization and Mental Health: The Critique of Medical Expansion, and a Consideration of How Markets, National States, and Citizens Matter - Sigrun Olafsdottir
• Danger and Diagnosed Mental Disorder - David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers
• Clinical and Policy Topics
• 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, Alison Munro
• Social Aspects of Psychotropic Medication - David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Jonathan Gabe
• Common Mental Health Problems: Primary Care and Health Inequalities in the UK - Carolyn Chew-Graham
• Promoting Mental Health - Helen Herman
• Institutionalization and Deinstitutionalization - Andrew Scull
• Action for Change in the UK: Thirty Years of the User/Survivor Movement - Peter Campbell, Diana Rose
• Recovery in Mental Illness: The Roots, Meanings, and Implementations of a “New” Services Movement - Ann McCranie
• Mental Health Problems, Social Exclusion and Social Inclusion: A UK Perspective - Jenny Secker
• Social Network Influence in Mental Health and Illness, Service Use and Settings, and Treatment Outcomes - Bernice A. Pescosolido