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| Author(s): | R. Tummey and T. Turner (Eds) |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 9780230009059 |
| Format: | softback |
| 224pp | |
| Price: | £19.99 |
| Review Date: | 12 March 2009 |
| Review: | This book provides a critical, but positive, look at the mental health issues of today. The authors have cast a critical eye over practices that are often blind, complacent and abusive, sending the message that practitioners must critically reflect on their own practice in the wider context of a system that affords them considerable power in their work with vulnerable people. Each chapter covers a controversial issue, some of which are often overlooked, such as: socioeconomic disadvantage; institutional racism; spirituality; gender; lifespan; iatrogenic abuse; psychological trauma; risk; and crime. |