SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH

"This stress on underlying social psychological processes gives The Social Psychology of Mental Health: Basic Mechanisms and Applications more unity than most edited volumes...By stressing underlying processes, its application becomes more focused and less piecemeal...The Social Psychology of Mental Health: Basic Mechanisms and Applications thus succeeds in illustrating just how practical basic research on social psychological processes can be." --Contemporary Psychology "The material encapsulated in these chapters is so vast that I merely enumerate select topics to whet the reader's appetite....The need for a volume articulating the contributions of social science to mental health research emerges clearly when juxtaposed to medical models....This book is must reading for sociologists engaged in mental health research. It demonstrates the kind of theoretical elaboration of empirical findings to which the field must now direct itself, if social science is to maintain a vital presence in mental health research. Some of the specific substantive areas described in this volume are certain to ignite applied research endeavors. Most important, this book poses an enormous challenge for those who see mental health problems as inexorably linked to placement in larger social systems. In emphasizing the psychology of social psychology, this volume charts a research agenda that minimizes the importance of social organization. The development of social psychology as a 'hub discipline,' I submit, requires a more balanced treatment of both the individual and societal components that define social psychology." --Contemporary SociologyRuble, Diane N. is the author of 'SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF MENTAL HEALTH' with ISBN 9780898621365 and ISBN 0898621364.