The Role of Trust in Mental Health

Auteur

Gerard Leavey has researched and published widely on mental illness and health inequalities. His work spans health service and epidemiological studies on ethnicity, suicide, and severe mental illness and qualitative investigations of religious leaders, and schoolteachers, and their role in the recognition and management of mental illness. His current work is focussed on tackling the social exclusion of people with severe mental illness.

Résumé
This book offers a comprehensive examination of trust and its relationship with mental illness and wellbeing. Engaging with a broad range of mental health research, theory, and practice through various transdisciplinary theoretical models of trust, this book highlights the contexts surrounding the making and breaking of trust.

Contenu

1. Introduction

2. Social Dimensions of Trust

3. Conflict and Trust

4. Alienation and Trust

5. Adolescence, Vulnerability, and Trust

6. Trust and Mistrust in Healthcare

7. Mistrust in Psychiatry

8. Structural Dimensions of Mistrust

9. Stigma and Trust

10. Conclusion