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The study of mental health and illness encompasses many disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, social work, public health, nursing, anthropology, and sociology. Researchers in social psychiatry study diverse topics: the spread and distribution of psychiatric and substance use disorders in different populations; social and cultural factors in mental disease etiology; the organization, financing, and delivery of mental health care services; the social and cultural aspects of psychiatric and mental health practices; and people’s attitudes, beliefs, and social representations regarding mental health, illness, substance abuse, disability, and mental health care providers and organizations. Social psychiatry thus is commonly conceived of as a subfield within the broad field of mental health and illness, with concepts, theories, and methods derived primarily from the social and behavioral sciences.
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Price, R.K., Shea, B.M., Murray, K.S., Hilditch, D.J. (1995). Introduction. In: Price, R.K., Shea, B.M., Mookherjee, H.N. (eds) Social Psychiatry across Cultures. Topics in Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0632-8_1
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