Social Inclusion and Mental Health

About the editors: Jed Boardman - Consultant/Senior Lecturer in Social Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. Alan Currie - Consultant Psychiatrist, Newcastle. Helen Killaspy - Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Rehabilitation Psychiatry, University College London Gillian Mezey - Reader in Forensic Psychiatry, Division of Mental Health at St George's, University of London.

Contents; Foreword; Part I. What Is Social Exclusion?: 1. Introduction; 2. Concepts of social exclusion; 3. Social exclusion of people with mental health problems and learning disabilities: key aspects; 4. Policy and social exclusion; 5. How is social exclusion relevant to psychiatry?; 6. Socially inclusive working across the psychiatric subspecialties; Part II. Social Exclusion: The Scope of the Problem: 7. The extent of disadvantage, poverty and social exclusion in the UK; 8. How are people with mental health problems excluded?; 9. Social exclusion in specific social groups and individuals with mental health problems; 10. Social exclusion and people with mental health problems: developing a clearer picture; 11. Finding acceptance: the experiences of people who use mental health services; 12. Social inclusion from the carer's perspective; Part III. Working towards Inclusive Psychiatry: 13. Social inclusion: research and evidence-based practice; 14. Implications of social inclusion for individual practice; 15. Socially inclusive mental health services: what will they look like?; 16. Training for socially inclusive practice; 17. Community mental health and the inclusion-exclusion seesaw; 18. Socially inclusive practice and psychiatry in the 21st century.