First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The second edition of A Handbook for the Study of Mental Health provides a comprehensive review of the sociology of mental health. Chapters by leading scholars

In this volume the authors examine the variety of ways in which gender affects the stress process.

I am very pleased to have been asked to do abrief foreword to this second CRISP volume, The Social Context o[ Coping. I know most of the participants and their