Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health

Rachel Tribe is a clinician, researcher, consultant, and trainer. She is Professor of Applied Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and the University of East London, and a trustee of three international mental health charities. She is the current Chair of Careif. Dinesh Bhugra is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King’s College, London. He is currently Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chair of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust since 2014 and a patron of Careif, an international mental health charity.

1. Introduction to Social Justice, Social Discrimination, and Mental Health: Theory, Practice, and Professional Issues

Rachel Tribe and Dinesh Bhugra

Theory

2. Social justice, mental illness, and human rights

Dinesh Bhugra and Mauro G. Carta

3. Exploring ‘othering’ and personhood as an antidote to power and privilege: going beyond the ‘tick-box’

Banjo Aromolaran and Elizabeth Wilson

4. Social exclusion as an issue of social justice

Jed Boardman

5. Politics of social justice and intersectionality

Julio Torales and Marcelo O’Higgins

6. Geopsychiatry, social justice, and human rights

Koravangattu Valsraj Menon, Anna Sri, Lisa Rampersad, Geraint Day, and Albert Persaud

7. Geopolitics of mental health in Africa

Jibril I. M. Handuleh and Albert Persaud

8. Social justice and health: a Caribbean vignette

Lisa Rampersad, Koravangattu Valsraj Menon, and Albert Persaud

9. Ethics, mental health, and social justice: implications of the climate and ecological crisis, past, present, and future

Tony Wainwright

10. Social justice and psychiatry’s social contract

Dinesh Bhugra, Daniel Poulter, Max Pemberton, and Rachel Tribe

Practice

11. Service user involvement and social justice: potential and limitations

Alison Faulkner

12. Therapeutic work with clients living in poverty: a social justice issue

Elvera Ballo

13. When the family is confronted with mental illness – challenges for family members and ways to support them

Miia Männikkö and Mari Helin

14. Social justice issues for international workers: tailoring staff support

Kate Thompson

15. Advocacy work within mental health: an issue of social justice or an inappropriate challenge to professional neutrality?

Rachel Tribe and Ben Amponsah

16. Social justice and policy: is there a role for mental health professionals?

Koravangattu Valsraj Menon and Albert Persaud

Professional issues

17. Is there a case for using the Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) within clinical supervision?

Rachel Tribe and Claire Marshall

18. Social justice and mental health: reflexive personal development

Jeeda Alhakim and Lucia Berdondini

19. Training psychological therapists for social justice

Claire Marshall, Ishba Rehman, Laura Anne Winter, and Gabriel Wynn

20. Research from a social justice perspective: concepts and practice

Trishna Patel and Kenneth Gannon

21. Developing an integrated psycho-social understanding of distress from the psychotherapy and counselling field

Mick Cooper

22. Guidance for clinicians on working in partnership with community organisations

Kate Thompson, Rachel Tribe, and Sally Zlotowitz

23. Bill of rights for persons with mental illness

Dinesh Bhugra