Welfarist psychiatry goes global
In welfarist psychiatry, the concept of mental disorder is replaced with the much broader concept of psychological disadvantage (PD). A PD is a stable psychological trait that tends to worsen well-being given the social and environmental context. In contrast to mental disorders, PDs do not necessari...
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| Formato: | Revista digital |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Elsevier
2020.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820428706719 |
| Sumario: | In welfarist psychiatry, the concept of mental disorder is replaced with the much broader concept of psychological disadvantage (PD). A PD is a stable psychological trait that tends to worsen well-being given the social and environmental context. In contrast to mental disorders, PDs do not necessarily form part of a syndrome, involve no threshold between health and dysfunction, may include socially deviant behaviour, and are not wholly attributable to the individual's 'underlying mental functioning' because they involve a mismatch with the environment. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (15 pages) |
