Description: The current mainstream way of describing psychological and emotional distress assumes it is the result of medical illnesses that need diagnosing and treating. This book summarises a powerful alternative to psychiatric diagnosis that asks not 'What's wrong with you?' but 'What's happened to you?' The Power Threat Meaning Framework (PTMF) was co-produced by a core group of psychologists and service users and launched in 2018, prompting considerable interest in the UK and worldwide. It argues that emotional distress, unusual experiences and many forms of troubled or troubling behaviour are understandable when viewed in the context of a person's life and circumstances, the cultural and social norms we are expected to live up to and the degree to which we are exposed to trauma, abuse, injustice and inequality. The PTMF offers all of us the tools to create new, hopeful narratives about the reasons for our distress that are not based on psychiatric diagnosis and to find ways forward as individuals, families, social groups and whole societies.
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EAN: 9781910919712
UPC: 9781910919712
ISBN: 9781910919712
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Item Length: 19.8 cm
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: A Straight Talking Introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: An alternative to psychiatric diagnosis
Publisher: Pccs Books
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Psychology
Item Height: 198 mm
Item Weight: 170 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Mary Boyle, Lucy Johnstone
Subject Area: Clinical Psychology
Series: The Straight Talking Introduction Series
Item Width: 129 mm
Format: Paperback