Thrive (eBook)

How Better Mental Health Care Transforms Lives and Saves Money

Richard Layard, David M. Clark (Autoren)

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2015
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7333-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Richard Layard is one of the world's leading labor economists and a member of the House of Lords. He is the author of Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (Penguin), which has been translated into twenty languages. David M. Clark is professor of psychology at the University of Oxford. Layard and Clark were the main drivers behind the UK's Improving Access to Psychological Therapies program.

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A compelling argument for improving society's mental health through increased services and better policyMental illness is a leading cause of suffering in the modern world. In sheer numbers, it afflicts at least 20 percent of people in developed countries. It reduces life expectancy as much as smoking does, accounts for nearly half of all disability claims, is behind half of all worker sick days, and affects educational achievement and income. There are effective tools for alleviating mental illness, but most sufferers remain untreated or undertreated. What should be done to change this? In Thrive, Richard Layard and David Clark argue for fresh policy approaches to how we think about and deal with mental illness, and they explore effective solutions to its miseries and injustices.Layard and Clark show that modern psychological therapies are highly effective and could potentially turn around the lives of millions of people at little or no cost. This is because treating psychological problems generates huge savings on physical health care, as well as massive economic savings through more people working. So psychological therapies would effectively pay for themselves, generating potential savings for nations the world over. Layard and Clark describe how various successful psychological treatments have been developed and explain what works best for whom. They also discuss how mental illness can be prevented through better schools and a better society, and the urgency of doing so.Illustrating why we cannot afford to ignore the issue of mental illness, Thrive opens the door to new options and possibilities for one of the most serious problems facing us today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2015
• Vorwort: Daniel Kahneman
• Zusatzinfo: 16 halftones. 43 line illus. 22 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Absenteeism • addiction • adolescence • Adult • Advertising • Adviser • alcoholism • Antidepressant • Anti-social Behaviour • antisocial personality disorder • Anxiety • anxiety disorder • Arthritis • Asthma • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder • Behavior • behaviour therapy • Bipolar Disorder • Calculation • Cardiovascular Disease • child care • clinical trial • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy • cognitive therapy • Conduct Disorder • Curriculum • dementia • Depression (mood) • Disease • drug rehabilitation • economy • Effectiveness • emotional and behavioral disorders • Emotional Well-Being • Employment • family income • Feeling • Follow-up • generalized anxiety disorder • General Practitioner • Health • Health Care • health policy • Health system • Improving Access to Psychological Therapies • income • interpersonal psychotherapy • learning • Life Skills • Major Depressive Disorder • Martin Seligman • Measures of national income and output • Mental disorder • Mental Health • Meta-analysis • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction • Mood (psychology) • obsessive–compulsive disorder • Old age • Oppositional Defiant Disorder • Pain • panic attack • Panic disorder • Personality disorder • Phobia • Policy • Politician • positive psychology • Posttraumatic stress disorder • presenteeism • Prevalence • Primary care physician • Psychiatrist • Psychoanalysis • psychological pain • Psychological Trauma • psychologist • Psychology • psychotherapy • Public Health • questionnaire • Relapse • Safety behaviors (anxiety) • saving • Schizophrenia • Self-Harm • social anxiety • Social Anxiety Disorder • Society • substance abuse • Suffering • Suicide • suicide attempt • Symptom • Tax • Thought • Unemployment • welfare • well-being • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7333-9 / 1400873339
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7333-3 / 9781400873333