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Social Work and Global Mental Health
This book presents respected experts, researchers, and clinicians providing the latest developments in social work knowledge and research. It discusses the latest in mental health research, information on violence, trauma and resilience, and social policies. Different mental health and social work approaches from around the world are examined in detail, including holistic, ethnopsychiatric, and interventions that place emphasis on recovery, empowerment, and social inclusion. This superb selection of presentations—taken from the 4th International Conference on Social Work in Health and Mental Health held in Quebec, Canada in 2004—comprehensively examines the theme of how social work can c...
Getting Wise about Getting Old
A grey tsunami is sweeping the land, wreaking social and financial havoc in its wake. Sound familiar? This myth about aging, along with twenty-eight others, is the focus of Getting Wise about Getting Old, which paints a far more accurate and nuanced portrait of old age. In it, experts debunk myths and persistent stereotypes about aging on a broad array of social issues – from retirement (seniors are low-performance workers) to housing (most older adults live in long-term care accommodation), and violence (senior women are not victims of sexual assault) to political participation (seniors are conservative and resistant to change) – deconstructing and countering them with the latest findings. The work of two leading research groups in Quebec, the short and accessible chapters of this vitally important book contribute to a better understanding of the social challenges, as well as the advantages, of an aging society.
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A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders
In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties this phenomenon to a tension between two fundamentally different approaches to emotion: an individualist approach, which regards emotions as the property of the individual, whether biologically or psychologically, and a culturalist approach, which regards emotions as collective, social processes with distinctive histories and meanings that work to produce particularized subjects. While she links a s...
Political Activist Ethnography
As activists strategize, build resistance, and foster solidarity, they also call for better dialogue between researchers and movements and for research that can aid their causes. In this volume, contributors examine how research can produce knowledge for social transformation by using political activist ethnography, a unique social research strategy that uses political confrontation as a resource and focuses on moments and spaces of direct struggle to reveal how ruling regimes are organized so activists and social movements can fight them. Featuring research from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Bangladesh, Canada, Poland, South Africa, and the United States on matters as diverse as anti-poverty organizing, prisoners’ re-entry, anti-fracking campaigns, left-inspired think-tank development, non-governmental partnerships, involuntary psychiatric admission, and perils of immigration medical examination, contributors to this volume adopt a “bottom-up” approach to inquiry to produce knowledge for activists, not about them. A must-read for humanities and social sciences scholars keen on assisting activists and advancing social change.
Expanding the Human in Human Rights
First Published in 2016. The global struggle for human rights has been, fundamentally, a struggle by oppressed groups against the structures of their oppression. As such, sociological work into the experiences of women, racial and ethnic minorities, children, LGBTQ communities, the mentally ill, and others helps us understand the promises and challenges of pursuing human rights. This book presents the fundamental insights gleaned from the scholarship on groups in society for the study of, understanding of, and, ultimately, realization of human rights.
L'itinérance au Québec
L'itinérance au Québec : réalités, ruptures et citoyenneté approfondit les nombreux processus de fragilisation, autant structurels, territoriaux, institutionnels que relationnels, qui fabriquent, maintiennent et reproduisent ces situations de marginalité, d’exclusion et de vulnérabilité au cœur du phénomène de l’itinérance.
Vieillir au pluriel
Il n’y a pas « un » vieillissement, mais bien « des » vieillissements. Les parcours de vie et les expériences reliées à l’avancement en âge se déclinent différemment selon de multiples facteurs personnels et sociaux : le genre, l’origine ethnique, l’orientation sexuelle, le statut socioéconomique, les compétences citoyennes, les capacités et incapacités... Reflet de cette pluralité, l’ouvrage réunit les savoirs scientifiques et cliniques de 45 auteurs aux trajectoires professionnelles et aux expériences variées. Ensemble, ils ont construit une expertise unique à propos des personnes aînées et de la société, regroupée en quatre grandes sections : les multiples vieillissements et leurs représentations, les inégalités des défis rencontrés, les environnements des aînés et, enfin, les politiques et les actions sociales entreprises. Véritable traité de gérontologie sociale, il s’agit du premier manuel francophone traitant des différents aspects sociaux des vieillissements. Il porte le projet d’une société plurielle et inclusive, d’une société pour tous les âges où il fait bon vieillir.
Proximités
Pourquoi les pratiques et les services de proximité, y compris l'accompagnement, se présentent-ils aujourd'hui comme une solution ? Les réponses à cette question se situent parfois du côté de la société dans son ensemble, parfois du côté plus particulier du système de soin. Elles soulèvent les enjeux sociaux et de santé qui contribuent à faire converger les solutions du côté des pratiques d'accompagnement et de proximité. Mais quelles sont les finalités de ces pratiques ?
