Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health Spaces, Places,
This book provides a much-needed account of informal community-based approaches to working with mental distress. It starts from the premise that contemporary mainstream psychiatry and psychology struggle to capture how distress results from complex e
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Carl Walker, Angie Hart, Paul Hanna
Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health
Carl Walker • Angie Hart • Paul Hanna
Building a New Community Psychology of Mental Health Spaces, Places, People and Activities
Carl Walker School of Applied Social Science University of Brighton Brighton, UK Paul Hanna School of Hospitality and Tourism Management University of Surrey Surrey, UK
Angie Hart School of Health Sciences and Boingboing Social Enterprise University of Brighton Brighton, UK
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To those lost to, or experiencing, distress
Acknowledgements
We would like to acknowledge the following for their help in the production of this book. Without them what follows in this book would not have been possible. Rachel Travers, Ros Cook, Lizzie Batten and the parent carers from Amaze. Peter Sutcliffe, Ellie Moulton and the staff and centre users from the Brighton Unemployed Families Centre Project. Heather Pugh and the volunteers and cyclists from Bike Minded, Bristol. Tuppy Owen and members of Outsiders. Suna Erygit-Madzwamuse, Becky Heaver, David Phipps, Claire Taylor, Simon Duncan, Josh Cameron, Scott Dennis and Cassandra Lorius.
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