*PRE-ORDER, APPROX 4-6 BUSINESS DAYS* A Critical Mental Health Primer Towards Informed Choice in Social Services, Education, and Healthcare By Jan N. DeFehr 9781773384573 [ZZ]

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In A Critical Mental Health Primer, Dr. Jan DeFehr, associate professor with twenty years of clinical social work experience, provides an overview of critical mental health scholarship, arguing that providing access to critical mental health knowledge is a prerequisite for ethical practice.

Through a peer-reviewed critique of psychiatry and its broad field of mental health, topics explored include scientific critique of evidence; the potential long-term harm caused by mental disorder diagnoses; key concerns related to lack of transparency and procedural justice; anti-colonial critiques of the mental health system; critiques concerning psychiatric drugs and the DSM; ethical standards of care; and practical guidance for supporting one another outside of the dominant mental health model.

A Critical Mental Health Primer is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate level mental health courses across social work, education, health sciences studies, and nursing programs, in both universities and colleges.

FEATURES

• A rare collection of non-pathologizing alternatives to current mental health practices that centre collaborative, relational, dialogical, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonial approaches
• Offers vital tools for building public access to critical mental health knowledge, learned from first-hand experience and a recent participatory action research project
• Pedagogical features include chapter overviews and post-chapter invitations with questions for readers