This book is both a sequel to and expansion of Community Psychology, published in 1992. It
serves as a textbook for courses on community psychology but now also includes material …

Background Low socio-economic status (SES) has been found to be associated with a
higher prevalence of depression. However, studies that have investigated this association …

We invite you to join us for this book's journey through the exciting field of community
psychology! As a team of authors, we each came to community psychology because it …

How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA
Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a sociological analysis of major …

We investigate the effects of a positive income shock on mental health among adolescent
girls using evidence from a cash transfer experiment in Malawi. Offers of cash transfers …

Background: Resilience is having good outcomes despite adversity and risk and could be
described in terms of preserving the same level of the outcome or rebounding back to that …

Abstract Background The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) is widely used as
a unidimensional instrument, but factor analyses tended to suggest that it contains two or …

Mental health problems have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental
health and low educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of the UK which …

It is believed that income affects health directly but it is argued that indirect income effects
due to relative deprivation may be equally important. This paper investigates these …

Background There are few longitudinal studies investigating the risk of major depression by
socioeconomic status (SES). In this study, data from the longitudinal cohort of Canadian …