Background
Prior, Pauline Mary was born on December 12, 1946 in Sligo, Ireland. Daughter of Patrick Prior and Rita Magee.
(Gender and Mental Health provides a critical introduction...)
Gender and Mental Health provides a critical introduction to the ways in which gender affects mental health experiences and mental health service use. The volume is unique in including a policy perspective and an overview-including a look at crime, the law, and service structures-of society's responses to mental disorders. Recent research has challenged basic assumptions that women are more prone than men to mental disorders, and has highlighted the increasing visibility of men in psychiatric statistics in the twentieth century. Yet, gender differences continue to be intertwined with risk factors in socioeconomic conditions and in biased approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Prior here examines the individual experiences of mental disorders for both men and women and explores a range of mental health policy issues including concepts of normality, trends in mental health care legislation and service delivery, the differing impacts of national mental health policies on women and on men, and changing views of disorders linked with sexual identity and orientation. Based on up-to-date information from both the United States and Europe, this volume will be useful to a broad range of scholars and professionals in psychology, sociology, social policy, gender studies, social work, medicine, and law.
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(This text traces the development of policies for mentally...)
This text traces the development of policies for mentally ill people in Northern Ireland. It describes a service based on lunacy law inherited from 19th-century Ireland, which remained virtually unchanged until after World War II. The 1950s and 1960s were revolutionary, heralding the emergence of a modern mental health care system, under the direction of the newly-created Northern Ireland Hospitals Authority. However, 1972 marked the beginning of a new era in Northern Ireland, one dominated by political violence and Direct Rule from Westminster. The author's analysis of the impact of these and other political events on mental health policy should be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners and anyone interested in examining the formation of social policy.
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Prior, Pauline Mary was born on December 12, 1946 in Sligo, Ireland. Daughter of Patrick Prior and Rita Magee.
Bachelor Social Studies in Sociology, University College, Cork, Ireland, 1972. Master of Science in Social Work, London School of Economics, 1978. Doctor of Philisophy in Social Policy, University York, England, 1992.
Community development worker, 1972-1977. Lecturer social work University College, Cork, 1978-1980. Senior social worker Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, 1990-1982.
Assistant principal social worker Northern Health Board, 1985-1994. Senior lecturer social policy Queen's University, since 1994. Visiting researcher European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2001.
(Gender and Mental Health provides a critical introduction...)
(This text traces the development of policies for mentally...)
Member British Association Social Workers (board directors 1998-2000, vice chairman Northern Ireland 1995-1997, chairman 1999-2001), Irish Social Policy Association (vice chairman 1998-2000), Social Policy Association (United Kingdom) (executive committee 1995-1998, 2000-2001).