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Handbook of the sociology of mental health
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This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2001-08-01. It has received 659 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health law & Mental health.read more
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Mechanisms linking social ties and support to physical and mental health.
TL;DR: It is argued that there are two broad types of support, emotional sustenance and active coping assistance, and two broad categories of supporters, significant others and experientially similar others, who specialize in supplying different types ofSupport to distressed individuals.
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The Social Environment and Suicide Attempts in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
TL;DR: The social environment appears to confer risk for suicide attempts over and above individual-level risk factors over and over again, particularly among lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth.
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The daily inventory of stressful events: an interview-based approach for measuring daily stressors.
TL;DR: Regression analyses showed that specific types of daily stressors such as interpersonal tensions and network stressors were unique predictors of both health symptoms and mood.
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The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas
Anne Stangl,Valerie A. Earnshaw,Carmen H. Logie,Wim H. van Brakel,Leickness C. Simbayi,Iman Barre,John F. Dovidio +6 more
TL;DR: The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework is proposed, which is a global, crosscutting framework based on theory, research, and practice, and its application to a range of health conditions, including leprosy, epilepsy, mental health, cancer, HIV, and obesity/overweight is demonstrated.
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Leaving An Abusive Partner: An Empirical Review of Predictors, the Process of Leaving, and Psychological Well-Being
TL;DR: A stress-process framework is used to explain the seemingly paradoxical finding that some women just out of the abusive relationship may have greater psychological difficulties than those who are still in it.