Mental Health and Well-Being: Alternatives to the Medical Model

· Routledge
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Mental Health and Well-Being provides a sound foundation for understanding alternatives to the medical model of mental health. Students and professionals alike will find an easy to understand overview of critiques of the dominant medical model of mental health and well-being, both longstanding and more recent, and will come away from the book with a more theoretically sound, holistic conception of mental health and well-being. Written by an experienced mental health expert and replete with practical anecdotes, exercises, and examples to help readers apply the book’s material, this book offers an essential foundation for developing more humane mental health practices.

About the author

Neil Thompson PhD, DLitt, is an independent writer, educator and adviser with extensive experience in the human services. Formerly a university professor, he now helps individuals and organizations to maximize learning.

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