168 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Mental health, including widespread depression, a high suicide rate and institutionalisation, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time, the mental health care system in Japan has historically been more restrictive than elsewhere in the world. This book looks at the challenges of mental health care in Japan, including problems such as the institutionalisation of long-term patients in mental... Read more
1. Mental Health Care in Japan - An Introduction Ruth Taplin 2. The Mental Health Policy and Services: Where We Stand Hiroto Ito 3. Reintegrating the mentally ill into society and work Satoru Hashimoto 4. How Mental Hospitals Treat their Patients, and Programmes for Rehabilitation into the Community Yayoi Imamura 5. National Federation of Families for the Mentally Ill in Japan: Historical and Future Perspectives Hajime Oketani, Hiromi Akiyama 6. An Overview of the User Movement in Britain and Japan Sandra Lawman 7. Attitudes to mental illness in Japan and Britain Shuntaro Ando and Graham Thornicroft Postscript Sandra Lawman
Biography
Ruth Taplin is Director of the Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies, London, and is Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law (www.ijebl.co.uk).
Sandra J. Lawman is an Associate for the Shaftesbury Partnership.
"The book refreshingly places [mental health] care in the mainstream of society." - James Brewer; Insurance Day, Monday 23 July 2012
"The book is timely and is an excellent source of information never before available in English." Yuko Kawanashi Journal of Japanese Studies Volume 40, Number 1,Winter 2014
