Welfarist psychiatry goes global
In welfarist psychiatry, the concept of mental disorder is replaced with the much broader concept of psychological disadvantage (PD). A PD is a stable psychological trait that tends to worsen well-being given the social and environmental context. In contrast to mental disorders, PDs do not necessari...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier/Academic Press
2020, 2020
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| Summary: | In welfarist psychiatry, the concept of mental disorder is replaced with the much broader concept of psychological disadvantage (PD). A PD is a stable psychological trait that tends to worsen well-being given the social and environmental context. In contrast to mental disorders, PDs do not necessarily form part of a syndrome, involve no threshold between health and dysfunction, may include socially deviant behaviour, and are not wholly attributable to the individual's 'underlying mental functioning' because they involve a mismatch with the environment |
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| Item Description: | Chapter 4 of the book Global mental health and neuroethics / Dan Stein, Ilina Singh [editors]. London (UK) : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2020 |
| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (15 pages) |