Beyond otherness: Controllability and location in mental health service clients' representations of mental health problems

Journal of Health Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 632-644

  Foster, Juliet L H ^a  

^a University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Mental health service clients; Representational projects; Social representations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELEMENT OF OTHERNESS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; NEUROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL REPRESENTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 0041689393     PISSN: 13591053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/13591053030085012     Document Type: Article

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