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Incisively written, this new edition of a popular guide first published in 1996 slices through the rhetoric of health promotion. Its penetrating analysis quickly reveals health promotion's conceptual roots, providing an enlightening map of their web of theory and practice. David Seedhouse proves that health promotion, a discipline intended to improve the health of a population, is prejudiced--every plan and every project stems first from human values--and argues that only by acknowledging this will a mature discipline emerge. To help speed progress the author proposes a positive, practical theory of health promotion destined to inspire anyone who wishes to create better health. This new edition includes three new chapters on conventional health promotion, radical and foundational health promotion and mental health promotion, providing examples of the use of foundational health promotion. This new edition also adds five new teaching exercises, incorporates and updates the guide for teachers and lecturers and includes a new topical case study. This book is laced with entertaining dialogues and readers are encouraged to explore ten carefully presented exercises. Educational, accessible and intelligent, Health Promotion: Philosophy, Prejudice and Practice, 2nd Edition is a seminal work which heralds the beginning of the end of health promotion's long adolescence. It is nothing less than essential reading for all practitioners and students of health promotion.
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Kris Hebner
reviewed Health promotion on September 28, 2011 Health promotion
The author says that if his arguments are correct than many of the 50 million Americans who meet the criteria for a mental disorder in community studies do not have valid disorders but suffer from distress that is rooted in stressful social arrangements and that will disappear when these situations improve. I believe the author does indeed prove his point.
I think the author does not come out strong enough with his conclusions, but this could be because the book was written in 2002. Many studies done since then strengthen his arguments and show that our society's understanding of mental illness only fits a small number of people.
Basically psychological well-being & distress commonly originate from social factors. Happiness, sadness and the like arise from acute life events, chronic lifer circumstances, social roles and collective systems of meaning, all of which the author explains very well throughout the book. Most people who have been labeled mentally ill are not they are actually responding appropriately. In other words they should be sad, experiencing grief, and anxiousness, etc.
Psychological conditions that fluctuate with social situations indicate normality, not mental illness.
It is an important book but ones published since 2010 do a better job and offer better, clearer and stronger conclusions.
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