Mental Health In China

Author : Harry Minas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030651619

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Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Harry Minas Pdf

Following on the previous volume, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, which was co-edited with Milton Lewis, this book explores historical and contemporary developments in mental health in China and Chinese immigrant populations. It presents the development of mental health policies and services from the 19th Century until the present time, offering a clear view of the antecedents of today’s policies and practice. Chapters focus on traditional Chinese conceptions of mental illness, the development of the Chinese mental health system through the massive political, social, cultural and economic transformations in China from the late 19th Century to the present, and the mental health of Chinese immigrants in several countries with large Chinese populations. China’s international political and economic influence and its capabilities in mental health science and innovation have grown rapidly in recent decades. So has China’s engagement in international institutions, and in global economic and health development activities. Chinese immigrant communities are to be found in almost all countries all around the world. Readers of this book will gain an understanding of how historical, cultural, economic, social, and political contexts have influenced the development of mental health law, policies and services in China and how these contexts in migrant receiving countries shape the mental health of Chinese immigrants.

Author : Jie Yang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781509502998

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Mental Health in China by Jie Yang Pdf

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State. The book offers a critical study of new characteristics and unique practices of Chinese psychology and cultural tradition, highlighting the embodied, holistic, heart-based approach to mental health. Drawing together voices from her own research and a broad range of theory, Jie Yang addresses the mental health of a diverse array of people, including members of China's elite, the middle class and underprivileged groups. She argues that the Chinese government aligns psychology with the imperatives and interests of state and market, mobilizing concepts of mental illness to resolve social, moral, economic, and political disorders while legitimating the continued rule of the party through psychological care and permissive empathy. This thoughtful analysis will appeal to those across the social sciences and humanities interested in well-being in China and the intersection of society, politics, culture, and mental health.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241514019

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Mental Health Atlas 2017 by World Health Organization Pdf

Collects together data compiled from 177 World Health Organization Member States/Countries on mental health care. Coverage includes policies, plans and laws for mental health, human and financial resources available, what types of facilities providing care, and mental health programmes for prevention and promotion.

Author : Wen-Shing Tseng,David Y. H. Wu
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483276274

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Chinese Culture and Mental Health by Wen-Shing Tseng,David Y. H. Wu Pdf

Chinese Culture and Mental Health presents an in-depth study of the culture and mental health of the Chinese people in varying settings, geographic areas, and times. The book focuses on the study of the relationships between mental health and customs, beliefs, and philosophies in the Chinese cultural setting. The text reviews traditional and contemporary Chinese culture; characteristic relations and psychological problems common in the Chinese family; adjustment of the Chinese in different socio-geographical circumstances; and general review of mental health problems. Ethnologists, sinologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists will find the book interesting.

Author : Bo Chen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000573053

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Mental Health Law in China by Bo Chen Pdf

This book provides an important critique of mental health law and practice in China, with a focus on involuntary detention and treatment. The work explores China’s mental health law reform regarding treatment decision-making in the new era of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It adopts a socio-legal approach, not only by undertaking a comprehensive desk-based analysis of the reforms introduced by China’s Mental Health Law (MHL) but also examining its implementation based on evidence from practice. The book seeks to investigate whether China’s first national MHL takes a step closer to the requirements of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on mental health treatment decision-making, and, if not, why not? The book will be of interest to those working in the areas of mental health law and policy, medical law and disability, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Author : Lynn Tang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317532880

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Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality by Lynn Tang Pdf

Mental health has long been perceived as a taboo subject in the UK, so much so that mental health services have been marginalised within health and social care. There is even more serious neglect of the specific issues faced by different ethnic minorities. This book uses the rich narratives of the recovery journeys of Chinese mental health service users in the UK – a perceived ‘hard-to-reach group’ and largely invisible in mental health literature – to illustrate the myriad ways that social inequalities such as class, ethnicity and gender contribute to service users' distress and mental ill-health, as well as shape their subsequent recovery journeys. Recovery, Mental Health and Inequality contributes to the debate about the implementation of ‘recovery approach’ in mental health services and demonstrates the importance of tackling structural inequalities in facilitating meaningful recovery. This timely book would benefit practitioners and students in various fields, such as nurses, social workers and mental health postgraduate trainees.

Author : Jie Yang
Publisher : Polity
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 150950298X

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Mental Health in China by Jie Yang Pdf

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State. The book offers a critical study of new characteristics and unique practices of Chinese psychology and cultural tradition, highlighting the embodied, holistic, heart-based approach to mental health. Drawing together voices from her own research and a broad range of theory, Jie Yang addresses the mental health of a diverse array of people, including members of China's elite, the middle class and underprivileged groups. She argues that the Chinese government aligns psychology with the imperatives and interests of state and market, mobilizing concepts of mental illness to resolve social, moral, economic, and political disorders while legitimating the continued rule of the party through psychological care and permissive empathy. This thoughtful analysis will appeal to those across the social sciences and humanities interested in well-being in China and the intersection of society, politics, culture, and mental health.

Author : A. Kleinman,T.Y. Lin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401749862

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Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture by A. Kleinman,T.Y. Lin Pdf

Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this subject, including what fmdings are being made, what questions researched, what conundrums worried over. Since our fund of knowledge is obviously incomplete, we want our readers to be aware of the limits to what we know and to our acquisition of new knowledge. Although the subject is too vast and uncharted to support a comprehensive synthesis, in a few areas - e. g. , psychiatric epidemiology - enough is known for us to be able to present major reviews. The chapters themselves cover a variety of themes that we regard as both intrinsically interesting and deserving of more systematic evaluation. Many of the issues they address we believe to be valid concerns for comparative cross cultural studies. No attempt is made to artificially integrate these chapters, since the editors wish to highlight their distinctive interpretive frameworks as evidence of the rich variety of approaches that scholars take to this subject. 'We see this volume as a modest and self-consciously limited exploration. Here are some accounts and interpretations (but by no means all) of normal and ab normal behavior in the context of Chinese culture that we believe fashion a more discriminating understanding of at least a few important aspects of that subject.

Author : Veronica Pearson
Publisher : American Psychiatric Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017522249

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Mental Health Care in China by Veronica Pearson Pdf

Author : Wen-Shing Tseng,David Y. H. Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015011555342

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Chinese Culture and Mental Health by Wen-Shing Tseng,David Y. H. Wu Pdf

Author : Harry Minas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030651622

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Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Harry Minas Pdf

Following on the previous volume, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, which was co-edited with Milton Lewis, this book explores historical and contemporary developments in mental health in China and Chinese immigrant populations. It presents the development of mental health policies and services from the 19th Century until the present time, offering a clear view of the antecedents of today's policies and practice. Chapters focus on traditional Chinese conceptions of mental illness, the development of the Chinese mental health system through the massive political, social, cultural and economic transformations in China from the late 19th Century to the present, and the mental health of Chinese immigrants in several countries with large Chinese populations. China's international political and economic influence and its capabilities in mental health science and innovation have grown rapidly in recent decades. So has China's engagement in international institutions, and in global economic and health development activities. Chinese immigrant communities are to be found in almost all countries all around the world. Readers of this book will gain an understanding of how historical, cultural, economic, social, and political contexts have influenced the development of mental health law, policies and services in China and how these contexts in migrant receiving countries shape the mental health of Chinese immigrants. Includes China and the Chinese Diaspora; Integrates examination of mental health and mental health system development in context; Features international experts in Chinese history and culture and their mental health aspects.

Author : Stan Kutcher,Yifeng Wei,Mark D. Weist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107053908

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School Mental Health by Stan Kutcher,Yifeng Wei,Mark D. Weist Pdf

This book provides vivid examples of school mental health innovations from 18 countries, addressing mental health promotion, prevention and interventions. These initiatives and innovations enable readers from different regions and disciplines to apply strategies to help students achieve and maintain mental health, enhance their learning outcomes and access services, worldwide.

Author : Tsung-Yi Lin,Wen-Shing Tseng,Yingkun Ye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015034887441

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Chinese Societies and Mental Health by Tsung-Yi Lin,Wen-Shing Tseng,Yingkun Ye Pdf

The 24 essays collected in this volume present the latest research on the specifically Chinese experience of mental health. The contributors, all mental health professionals, discuss a wide range of disorders found in Chinese communities in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore andabroad.Realizing that there is diversity within Chinese culture itself, they utilize that culture as an axis from which to explore various dimensions of mental health at individual, family and community levels. Various mental health problems are examined, with particular emphasis on neuroses and otherspecific mental disorders.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of behavioural and social sciences, culture, and mental health; to clinicians and mental health workers, particularly cultural psychiatrists; and to any persons interested in the study of the Chinese.

Author : Guy Ramsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781000198706

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Reporting Mental Illness in China by Guy Ramsay Pdf

This book examines how Chinese-language newspapers across greater China report on severe mental illness, and why they do so in the ways they do, given that reporting in local newspapers can strongly influence how Chinese readers view the illness. By assessing how the reporting in three leading broadsheet newspapers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan constructs the illness, the book considers how the distinct social and political histories of the three culturally Chinese communities shape the reporting, and whether it bears out or contests the intense stigma against the illness that prevails locally. The findings can usefully encourage and inform attempts to humanise, include, and empower those with a severe mental illness across greater China and the global Chinese diaspora. Employing a well-tested, transparent discourse analytic approach, the book also includes numerous Chinese-English bilingual news report extracts to illustrate its claims. As such, Reporting Mental Illness in China will be of interest to sinologists, discourse analysts, mental health professionals and public health authorities across the globe, especially in places where there are large Chinese-speaking populations.

Author : Howard Chiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318880

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Psychiatry and Chinese History by Howard Chiang Pdf

This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.