Towards Partnerships in Health and Social Care: A Coloquium of Approaches to Connectedness

doi:10.1017/9781911623069.013

Chapter 13 - Towards Partnerships in Health and Social Care: A Coloquium of Approaches to Connectedness

from Section 2 - Scoping

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019

Sue Bailey and

Edited by

S. Alexander Haslam ,

Catherine Haslam ,

Kamaldeep S. Bhui and

Susan Bailey

Edited in association with

Daniel Maughan

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Richard Williams: Affiliation:
University of South Wales
Verity Kemp: Affiliation:
Healthplanning Ltd.
S. Alexander Haslam: Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Catherine Haslam: Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Kamaldeep S. Bhui: Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
Susan Bailey: Affiliation:
Centre for Mental Health
Daniel Maughan: Affiliation:
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

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Summary

While there is great optimism for healthcare to be gained from developments in neuroscience, genetics and epigenetics, the social contexts and social approaches revealed by research, including much that we cover in this book, are also very powerful contributors to our health and recovery from ill health. As Nestler et al. say, ‘Psychiatric disorders are complex multifactorial illnesses … While genetic factors are important in the etiology of most mental disorders, the relatively high rates of discordance among identical twins … clearly indicate the importance of additional mechanisms’ (Nestler et al., 2016, p. 447).

This book focuses on social and environmental mechanisms; this chapter draws together a selection of the topics raised in Sections 1 and 2. We link facets of the social science that have come up thus far with concepts that are implicit in public physical and mental healthcare, and we summarise the concept of mental health recovery.

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Information: Social Scaffolding
Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Healthcare
, pp. 114 - 122

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781911623069.013 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2019

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