Overview
- Focuses on men's mental health and men's issues that are growing in importance and have increasing societal prominence
- Takes a public health/social determinants transdisciplinary approach, making a unique argument
- Addresses a gap in the literature as there are no recent nor "classic" texts focused on men’s mental health
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Men’s Mental Health
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Men’s Issues and Their Relation to Men’s Mental Health
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About this book
In this book, the author discusses the social determinants of men’s mental health and accompanying psychosocial interventions, moving beyond one-dimensional discussions of masculinity. Among the topics covered are:
- The Social Determinants of Male Suicide
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Young Males: The Medicalization of Boyhood?
- Why Do Men Have Low Rates of Formal Mental Health Service Utilization? An Analysis of Social and Systemic Barriers to Care, and Discussion of Promising Male-Friendly Practices
- The Gender Gap in Education: Understanding Educational Underachievement in Young Males and its Relationship to Adverse Mental Health
- Employment, Unemployment and Workplace Issues in Relation to Men’s Mental Health
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Rob Whitley, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, and a Research Scientist at the Douglas Research Centre. He is also an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and has held honorary appointments at King’s College London, Dartmouth Medical School (New Hampshire) and Howard University (Washington, DC). He has published over 125 academic papers in the field of social and cultural psychiatry, and has written over 100 mental health-related articles for lay audiences in diverse venues including Psychology Today, the HuffPost, the Montreal Gazette, the Vancouver Sun and the National Post. Whitley is also a video-producer and film-maker, and has produced several documentaries and short fictional films related to men’s mental health that have been featured in film festivals across North America. His research has been financially supported by a variety of public and private funding bodiesincluding the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Veterans Affairs Canada and Movember. He is currently a Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé Senior Research Scholar
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Men’s Issues and Men’s Mental Health
Book Subtitle: An Introductory Primer
Authors: Rob Whitley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86320-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86319-7Published: 16 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86322-7Published: 17 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86320-3Published: 15 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 255
Topics: Gender Studies, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Men's Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Policy, Gender and Sexuality