Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention

By: Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Caitlin Mahoney and Amy Meade and Arlan Fuller

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Synopsis: This multidisciplinary volume considers the role of both public health and mental health policies and practices in the prevention of mass atrocity, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The authors address atrocity prevention through the framework of primary (pre-conflict), secondary (mid-conflict), and tertiary (post-conflict) settings. They examine the ways in which public health and mental health scholars and practitioners currently orient their research and interventions and the ways in which we can adapt frameworks, methods, tools, and practice toward a more sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary understanding and application of atrocity prevention. The book brings together diverse fields of study by global north and global south authors in diverse contexts. It culminates in a narrative that demonstrates the state of the current fields on intersecting themes within public health, mental health, and mass atrocity prevention and the future potential directions in which these intersections could go. Such discussions will serve to influence both policy makers and practitioners in these fields toward developing, adapting, and testing frames and tools for atrocity prevention. Multidisciplinary perspectives are represented among editors and authors, including law, political science, international studies, public health, mental health, philosophy, clinical psychology, social psychology, history, and peace studies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 240 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000414240
Related ISBNs:: 9781003105084, 9780367612993, 9780367612979
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 07/29/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caitlin Mahoney, Amy Meade, and Arlan Fuller
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Psychology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Edited by:: Caitlin O. Mahoney
Edited by:: Amy E. Meade
Edited by:: Arlan F. Fuller