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Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic conditions, and the social stratification system all contribute to individual well-being or disorder. U'Ren investigates how access to income, education, and social affiliations buffers individuals against stress and facilitates coping. He demonstrates that those who lack access to such resources suffer the poorest health and the greatest mental distress — a problem that has only grown more challenging with rising inequality.  Adding a new dimension to understandings of mental health, mental illness, and psychological distress, Social Perspective offers clinicians a concise account of society's impact on the individual.

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‘This book is a must for anyone working with psychiatric patients, policy makers, and politicians… It makes the reader more humble, understanding and with greater empathy for the burdens of people with mental health problems.’ -- Lisbeth Uhrskov * Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol 126: 2012 * ‘This is an enlightening book that even the most psychiatrically critical health practitioners and researchers can read with pleasure… Dr. U’Ren’s book is a very welcome breath of fresh air in a field traditionally rather indifferent to the social determinants of health.’ -- John Frank * Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health February 2013 *

'This book is a must for anyone working with psychiatric patients, policy makers, and politicians... It makes the reader more humble, understanding and with greater empathy for the burdens of people with mental health problems.' -- Lisbeth Uhrskov 'This is an enlightening book that even the most psychiatrically critical health practitioners and researchers can read with pleasure... Dr. U'Ren's book is a very welcome breath of fresh air in a field traditionally rather indifferent to the social determinants of health.' -- John Frank

'This is an enlightening book that even the most psychiatrically critical health practitioners and researchers can read with pleasure... Dr. U'Ren's book is a very welcome breath of fresh air in a field traditionally rather indifferent to the social determinants of health.' -- John Frank Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health February 2013 'This book is a must for anyone working with psychiatric patients, policy makers, and politicians... It makes the reader more humble, understanding and with greater empathy for the burdens of people with mental health problems.' -- Lisbeth Uhrskov Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol 126: 2012

'This book is a must for anyone working with psychiatric patients, policy makers, and politicians... It makes the reader more humble, understanding and with greater empathy for the burdens of people with mental health problems.' -- Lisbeth Uhrskov Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, vol 126: 2012

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Richard U'Ren is an emeritus professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University.

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