Social Scaffolding
Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Healthcare

An approach to designing health care that explores how social factors and social identity determine health and recovery.

Richard Williams (Edited by), Verity Kemp (Edited by), S. Alexander Haslam (Edited by), Catherine Haslam (Edited by), Kamaldeep S. Bhui (Edited by), Susan Bailey (Edited by), Daniel Maughan (Associate editor)

9781911623045, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2019

362 pages, 7 b/w illus. 10 tables
23.3 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.56 kg

Using current societal dilemmas, this book explores how social factors and social identity influence our health and recovery from illness. It includes recent research to present practitioners, researchers, policymakers and students of many disciplines with the material to support them in better harnessing current knowledge of the impact of social factors on health. The contents will influence collaborative working across policy, disciplinary and practice boundaries to design and deliver healthcare services. The book identifies the importance of social connectedness, social support, agency and self and group efficacy in people's health, longevity and resilience after adversity. Core perspectives include the social identity approach and a values framework for taking public health ethics into decision-making, both of which emphasise valuing people and co-productive relationships. Advocating better targeted mental health promotion and integrated interventions, this book strongly argues for a greater emphasis on social factors in evidence-based and cost-effective practice.

Part I. Introduction: 1. Health and society: contributions to improving healthcare from the social sciences Richard Williams
Part II. Schooling: 2. Six features of the human condition: the social causation and social construction of mental health Steven R. Smith
3. Social sciences and health: a framework for building and strengthening social connectedness Catherine Haslam and S. Alexander Haslam
4. The social identity approach to health S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten and Catherine Haslam
5. The relevance of social science to improving health and healthcare Daniel Maughan, Susan Bailey and Richard Williams
Part III. Scoping: 6. The social determinants of mental health Kamaldeep S. Bhui, Oliver Quantick and David Ross
7. Laidback science: messages from horizontal epidemiology Alarcos Cieza and Jerome Bickenbach
8. Parity of esteem for mental health Susan Bailey
9. Belonging Peter Hindley
10. Families and communities: their meanings and roles across ethnic cultures Hinemoa Elder
11. The nature of resilience: coping with adversity Richard Williams and Verity Kemp
12. The value of tolerance and the tolerability of competing values Jonathan Montgomery
13. Towards partnerships in health and social care: a coloquium of approaches to connectedness Richard Williams, Susan Bailey and Verity Kemp
14. Commentaries on core themes in Part III Jonathan Montgomery, S. Alexander Haslam, Adrian Neal and Richard Williams
Part IV. Sourcing: 15. Crowds and cooperation John Drury, Hani Alnabulsi and Holly Carter
16. Emergencies, disasters and risk reduction: a microcosm of social relationships in communities Tim Healing, Anthony D. Redmond, Verity Kemp and Richard Williams
17. Shared social identity in emergencies, disasters and conflicts John Drury and Khalifah Alfadhli
18. Complex trauma and complex responses to trauma in the asylum context Cornelius Katona and Francesca Brady
19. The mental health of veterans: ticking time bomb or business as usual? Deirdre Macmanus, Anna F. Taylor and Neil Greenberg
20. Violent radicalisation: relational roots and preventive implications Kamaldeep S. Bhui and Rachel Jenkins
21. Ways out of intractable conflict John Alderdice
22. Agency as a source of recovery and creativity John Drury, Tim Healing, Richard Williams, Catherine Haslam and Verity Kemp
Part V. Scaffolding: 23. Making connectedness count: from theory to practising a social identity model of health Stephen Reicher
24. Public health values and evidence-based practice Jonathan Montgomery and Richard Williams
25. Social scaffolding: supporting the development of positive social identities and agency in communities Catherine Haslam, S. Alexandser Haslam and Tegan Cruwys
26. Synthesising social science into healthcare Daniel Maughan and Richard William
27. Relationships, groups, teams and long-termism Peter Aitken, John Drury and Richard Williams
28. Caring for the carers Adrian Neal, Verity Kemp and Richard Williams
29. The importance of creating and harnessing a sense of 'us': social identity as the missing link between leadership and health S. Alexander Haslam, Niklas K. Steffens and Kim Peters
30. Smithtown as society Verity Kemp, Daniel Maughan, Richard Williams, Richard Mills and Tim Healing
Part VI. Sustaining: 31. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action Richard Williams.

Subject Areas: Clinical psychology [MMJ], Psychiatry [MMH]