Critical Mental Health for Social Workers

Name: Critical Mental Health for Social Workers
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A Practical Guide to Doing Better

By: Jennie Simpson

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Hardcover | 2 April 2026 | Edition Number 1

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Hardcover

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21.6 x 13.8

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Available: 2nd April 2026

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This book provides an alternative viewpoint on mental health, an issue that touches so many of the families and individuals we work with. Whether that be a parent or school seeking an âADHDâ diagnosis for a child, a teenager struggling with self-harm or a parent with âbipolarâ, it is a topic of ever-increasing relevance.

Too many social workers accept the dominant medical model and therefore can unwittingly collude with issues of helplessness, thus maintaining harmful systems or experiences by positioning the individual as the âproblemâ. This goes against a truly systemic way of thinking and can take away from more helpful narrative and exploration. Providing critical thought around the concepts of mental health âdisordersâ themselves, the damage they can cause and questions the progress being made, this book covers how mental health âdiagnosisâ works, its origins, and its shockingly unscientific and highly subjective basis. It urges us to recognise that when we talk of mental health diagnosis, we are often talking about social constructs.

Social workers should challenge oppression, empower people, and uphold their human rights and this book helps to prevent the perpetuation of harm to the very people we wish to support.

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