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Ties that Enable

Scheid, Teresa L, Smith, S. Megan

2021

Overview

Ties that Enable is written for students, providers, and advocates seeking to understand how best to improve mental health care – be it for themselves, their loved ones, their clients, or for the wider community. The authors integrate their knowledge of mental health care as researchers, teachers, and advocates and rely on the experiences of people living with severe mental health problems to help understand the sources of community solidarity. Communities are the primary source of social solidarity, and given the diversity of communities, solutions to the problems faced by individuals living with severe mental health problems must start with community level initiatives. “Ties that Enable” examines the role of a faith-based community group in providing a sense of place and belonging as well as reinforcing a valued social identity. The authors argue that mental health reform efforts need to move beyond a focus on individual recovery to more complex understandings of the meaning of community care. In addition, mental health care needs to move from a medical model to a social model which sees the roots of mental illness and recovery as lying in society, not the individual. It is our society’s inability to provide inclusive supportive environments which restrict the ability of individuals to recover. This book provides insights into how communities and system level reforms can promote justice and the higher ideals we aspire to as a society.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 1960s / 60s / addiction / advocates / anxiety / Care / Christian Life / Christianity / community / community care / community group / Community mental health services / community support / community treatment / cost efficient models / de-institutionalization / depression / deranged / Disease & Health Issues / doctor / drug addiction / Episcopalian / ethical treatment / faith-based / faith-based organization / faith-based program / fentanyl / gun reform / health care / Health Care Delivery / health policy / healthcare / healthcare justice / healthcare reform / hospital / illness / individual recovery / insurance / justice / marginalization / marginalized / mass shootings / MEDICAL / MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General / men's mental health / Mental Health / mental health care / mental health care reform / mental health patient / mental health problems / Mental illness / Mentally ill / nurse / obamacare / opioid abuse / opioid addiction / opioid crisis / peer support / policy / policymaking / political reform / prescription / prescription drugs / providers / psychiatrist / psychologist / PSYCHOLOGY / PSYCHOLOGY / General / public health / public policy / recovery / RELIGION / RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General / schizophrenia / single-payer insurance / social identity / Social Issues / social justice / social relationships / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / social support / society / sociology / sociology of mental health / solidarity / stigmatization / students / substance abuse / suicide / suicide rates / support groups / supportive environments / therapist / universal healthcare
• ISBN: 9781978818798, 1978818793, 1978818769, 1978818777, 9781978818750, 9781978818781, 1978818750, 9781978818774, 1978818785, 9781978818767