Mental Health Care In Japan

Mental Health Care in Japan Mental health, including widespread depression, a high suicide rate and institutionalisation, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time, the mental health care system in Japan has historically been more restrictive than elsewhere in the world. This book looks at the challenges of mental health care in Japan, including problems such as the institutionalisation of long-term patients in mental hospitals. The book discusses the latest legislation to deal with mental health care, and explores the various ideas and practices concerning rehabilitation into the workforce, the community and service user groups that empower the mentally ill. It goes on to look at the social stigma attached to the mentally ill in Japan and Britain, which touches upon the issue of counselling those with post traumatic stress after the recent earthquake. Ruth Taplin is Director of the Centre for Japanese and East Asian Studies, London, and is Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law (www.ijebl.co.uk). Sandra J. Lawman is an Associate for the Shaftesbury Partnership. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series 1 A Japanese Company in Crisis Ideology, Strategy, and Narrative Fiona Graham 2 Japan’s Foreign Aid Old Continuities and New Directions Edited by David Arase 3 Japanese Apologies for World War II A Rhetorical Study Jane W. Yamazaki 4 Linguistic Stereotyping and Minority Groups in Japan Nanette Gottlieb 5 Shinkansen From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan Christopher P. Hood 6 Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan Edited by Cornelia Storz 7 Cities, Autonomy and Decentralization in Japan Edited by Carola Hein and Philippe Pelletier 8 The Changing Japanese Family Edited by Marcus Rebick and Ayumi Takenaka 9 Adoption in Japan Comparing Policies for Children in Need Peter Hayes and Toshie Habu 10 The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature Polygraphic Desire Nina Cornyetz 11 Institutional and Technological Change in Japan’s Economy Past and Present Edited by Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz 12 Political Reform in Japan Leadership Looming Large Alisa Gaunder 13 Civil Society and the Internet in Japan Isa Ducke 14 Japan’s Contested War Memories The ‘Memory Rifts’ in Historical Consciousness of World War II Philip A. Seaton 15 Japanese Love Hotels A Cultural History Sarah Chaplin 16 Population Decline and Ageing in Japan The Social Consequences Florian Coulmas 17 Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity David Chapman 18 A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific Foreign Bodies in Tinned Tuna Kate Barclay 19 Japanese-Russian Relations, 1907–2007 Joseph P. Ferguson 20 War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Post-War Japan, 1945–2007 The Japanese History Textbook C