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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “betsy thom”
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  • Tackling Addiction

    Pathways to Recovery

    by George De Leon, David Best, Wendy Dawson, Brian Kidd, Tim McSweeney, Mark Gilman, Alex Stevens, Betsy Thom, Albert Zandvoort, Kuladharini ...
    The issue of 'recovery' has been increasingly prioritised by policymakers in recent years, but the meaning of the concept remains ambiguous. This edited collection brings together the thoughts and experiences of researchers, practitioners and service users from the fields of health, addiction and criminal justice and centres on current developments in addiction policy and practice.Tackling ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Risk and Substance Use

    Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places

    Edited by Susanne MacGregor, Betsy Thom ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    This interdisciplinary collection examines the role that alcohol, tobacco and other drugs have played in framing certain groups and spaces as ‘dangerous’ and in influencing the nature of formal responses to the perceived threat.Taking a historical and cross-national perspective, it explores how such groups and spaces are defined and bounded as well as the processes by which they come to be seen as ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Alcohol, Power and Public Health

    A Comparative Study of Alcohol Policy

    by Shane Butler, Karen Elmeland, Betsy Thom, James Nicholls ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Health and Social Policy
    In recent years, the reduction of alcohol-related harm has emerged as a major policy issue across Europe. Public health advocates, supported by the World Health Organisation, have challenged an approach that targets problem-drinking individuals, calling instead for governments to control consumption across whole populations through a combination of pricing strategies, restrictions on retail ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Drug & Alcohol Studies

    Social Science Approaches

    Edited by Torsten Kolind, Betsy Thom, Geoffrey Hunt ...
    With contributions from leading international academics across the social sciences, this accessible handbooktakes a critical look at the key theories, disciplinary approaches, contemporary issues and debates in the field.· Part I Central Social Science Theories Drug and Alcohol Studies· Part II Pillars in Social Science Drug and Alcohol Studies· Part III Controversies and New Approaches in Social ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

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    The Politics of Mental Health

    by Micha Frazer-Carroll ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    ‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’ Dazed‘Exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing, and teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world’ Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of Health CommunismMental health is a political issue, but we ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence

    From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence

    by Justin Parkhurst ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast majority of work on the subject has failed to engage with the political nature of decision making and how ... Read more

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  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Work Practice in Mental Health

    by Victoria Coppock, R. W. Dunn ...
    ′An excellent introduction to the main themes of social work and mental health. It provides a comprehensive summary of contemporary debates and perspectives around mental health practice. I would recommend this to all social work students.′ - Philip O′Hare, University of Central Lancashire"This book is a timely restatement of the central role of social work in mental health. In this important work ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Psychiatric Ethics

    Edited by Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green ...
    Ethical issues inherent in psychiatric research and clinical practice are invariably complex and multi-faceted. Well-reasoned ethical decision-making is essential to deal effectively with patients and promote optimal patient care. Drawing on the positive reception of Psychiatric Ethics since its first publication in 1981, this highly anticipated 5th edition offers psychiatrists and other mental ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Psychiatric Hegemony

    A Marxist Theory of Mental Illness

    by Bruce M. Z. Cohen ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive Marxist critique of the business of mental health, demonstrating how the prerogatives of neoliberal capitalism for productive, self-governing citizens have allowed the discourse on mental illness to expand beyond the psychiatric institution into many previously untouched areas of public and private life including the home, school and the workplace. Through ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy

    Edited by Dikaios Sakellariou, Nick Pollard, Frank Kronenberg ...
    This challenging and innovative book explores the political aspects of occupational therapy. It looks at how practitioners may develop political awareness in order to aid community development. A Political Practice of Occupational Therapy is about maximizing the potential impact of occupational therapists' engagements and ensuring the profession is working towards the contruction of a civic ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement

    Edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson, Bob Sapey ...
    This book explores the challenges of applying disability theory and policy, including the social model of disability, to madness and distress. It brings together leading scholars and activists from Europe, North America, Australia and India, to explore the relationship between madness, distress and disability.Whether mental health problems should be viewed as disabilities is a pressing concern, ... Read more

    $47.69 USD