Improving Mental Health through Social Support
Building Positive and Empowering Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10894977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Brown (0000-0001-9363-1271, Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 2227-2229 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0045-3102 • E-ISSN: 1468-263X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjsw/bcv065 |
| OpenAlex | W2225201897 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Jonathan Leach's book offers a well-organised and engaging exploration into social support. Its readership is likely to be social workers and other professionals based in adult mental health settings, although it should draw the interest of health and social care workers in a range of settings, where the need to grasp how to genuinely provide social support to people experiencing mental health problems is a necessary part of practice. The written expression is clear and, very early in the book, Leach states that the book is sociologically informed. He then outlines what he wants the book to do, which is for it to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of how social support operates and can be used by mental health practitioners. This aim is achieved by locating and exploring where social support fits in a range of mental health settings. The book advocates how social support can be used as an approach to addressing a variety of mental health problems, ranging from mild anxiety difficulties to severe and enduring mental health conditions, which impact on multiple aspects of a person's life. This is ambitious considering the broad range of mental health problems that this encompasses and different individual life experiences. However, Leach does provide examples that help to contextualise these complexities in practice.
Health care · Mental health · Political science · Psychotherapist · Public relations · Social support · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |