Main description:

This book considers how rurality interacts with the mental health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in different regional settings. Through the use of international and comparative case studies, the book offers insight into the spatiality of mental health diagnoses, experiences, services provision and services access between and within rural areas. It is the first book to specifically address rural mental health geographies from an international perspective, and will be of interest to researchers and policymakers in rural studies, regional studies, health geography and rural mental health.

Contents:

1. Adversity and Resilience: Rural Mental Health in Australia 2. Mental Health and Wellbeing among Migrants in Rural Areas of the Global North: Evidence from the Literature 3. Muddying the Therapeutic Geographies of Mental Healthcare: Carescapes of Psychiatric Transition in the Scottish Highlands 4. Care Farming, Therapeutic Landscapes and Rurality in the UK 5. Non-Clinical Wellbeing Interventions in Rural Regions 6. Delivering Effective Treatment in Rural Regions 7. Wildlife: Exploring the Potential of an Innovative Digital Narrative Approach to Improve Mental Health Interventions for Adolescents in Indigenous Rural Populations of Low-Middle Income Countries 8. Rurality: Social Forces, Stress and Mental Health 9. Rural Mental Health and Global Ethical Perspectives 10. Towards a Research Agenda for Global Rural Mental Health