Mental health and well-being : alternatives to the medical model /
Neil Thompson.
- 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
This volume 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.