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Cover -- Front Endpaper: The Roadmap to Diagnosis -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Basics of Diagnosis -- 1. The Road to Diagnosis -- 2. Getting Started with the Roadmap -- 3. The Diagnostic Method -- 4. Putting It Together -- 5. Coping with Uncertainty -- 6. Multiple Diagnoses -- 7. Checking Up -- Part II. The Building Blocks of Diagnosis -- 8. Understanding the Whole Patient -- 9. Physical Illness and Mental Diagnosis -- 10. Diagnosis and the Mental Status Examination -- Part III. Applying the Diagnostic Techniques -- 11. Diagnosing Depression and Mania -- 12. Diagnosing Anxiety, Fear, Obsessions, and Worry -- 13. Diagnosing Psychosis -- 14. Diagnosing Problems of Memory and Thinking -- 15. Diagnosing Substance Use and Other Addictions -- 16. Diagnosing Eating and Sleeping Disorders -- 17. Diagnosing Personality and Relationship Problems -- 18. Beyond Diagnosis: Compliance, Suicide, Violence -- 19. Patients, Patients -- Appendix. Diagnostic Principles -- References and Suggested Reading -- Index -- Back Endpaper: Diagnostic Principles.

Introduction: Scroungerphobia revisited: shirker-bashing and feral freak-shows -- Moral panics, scapegoating and the persistence of pauper folk-devils -- Problem families and 'the workless': the rhetorical roots of shirkerphobia -- Framing the poor: images of welfare and poverty in today's press -- Deliberating deservingness: the public's role in constructing scroungers -- Incidental scroungers: normalizing anti-welfarism in wider press narratives -- Conclusion: From division to unity: a manifesto for rebuilding trust -- Appendices: Framing analysis methodology -- Sentiment analysis methodology.

Trust, risk and framing contemporary childhood -- "Worthy versus unworthy" children: images of childhood through time -- Our children and other people's: childhood in the age of distrust -- Commercializing distrust: framing juveniles in the news -- Every parent's worst nightmare: the abduction of April Jones --Strangers no more: towards reconstructing trust

"Widely regarded as a standard clinical resource, this book helps practitioners think outside the mental health box and recognize when a client may urgently need a medical evaluation. Part I provides an accessible overview of symptoms that can be observed in a standard mental status examination and may point to medical illness. Engaging case vignettes and interviewing pointers help readers hone their diagnostic skills. Part II presents concise facts--including basic medical information and physical and mental symptoms--on more than 60 diseases and syndromes. An easy-to-read chart in Part III cross-tabulates all of the disorders and symptoms for quick reference and comparison. New to This Edition *Reflects more than 15 years of advances in medical and mental health knowledge. *Updated throughout for DSM-5. *Additional medical disorders: celiac disease, traumatic brain injury, heavy metal toxicity, and others. *Updated links to further reading on each health condition"--

UK media and political discourse has increasingly been dominated by concerns about the economic disadvantages experienced by post-industrial communities collectively labelled 'left behind' – and the deepening cultural fault-lines between them and wider society recent democratic events are said to have exposed. An overlapping narrative has re-cast many such communities as 'red-wall'/'blue-wall' constituencies, following the 2016 Brexit referendum and subsequent general elections – leading to a growing political focus on 'levelling up' infrastructural investment, employment and training opportunities to address economic inequalities between South-East England and much of the rest of the UK. To date, though, the primary political focus of these discourses has been on areas of northern and eastern England, the Midlands and Wales, with only a handful of contributions to the debate emphasizing the plight of comparably 'left-behind' areas of Scotland – notably an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report highlighting COVID-19's disproportionate economic impact on Scottish cities like Glasgow and Dundee with significant pockets of poverty ( Davenport & Zaranko, 2020 ). This article draws on interviews with people from a range of disadvantaged groups in Scotland to explore how communities that have often been left out of the 'national conversation' about the 'left behind' are both experiencing economic inequality and starting to fight back – through incipient forms of grassroots 'DIY levelling up'.

As a component of the Australian Army, the Militia numbered over 300,000 men at its peak and fought in several successful and complex campaigns in the South-West Pacific Area (SWPA) during the Second World War. Notwithstanding its size and achievements, the Militia has been overshadowed by analysis of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and it remains poorly represented in Australia's Second World War historiography. The 'Militia' has been inadequately understood and interpreted. It represented both a status and organisation during the Second World War that was markedly different from its pre-war incarnation and the post-war Citizen Military Forces. As Australia's only wartime fighting organisation that comprised conscripted men, the Militia was inherently political. Among both the army and public, perceptions of the Militia were affected by the presence of conscripts and contentious views of conscription even though it comprised an increasing number of unrestricted volunteers in the latter half of the war. Despite instances of bonding in battle, relations between the Militia and the AIF were strained at an organisational level throughout the war. Focusing on the experience of its 59 standard infantry battalions and drawing on a wide range of official and private evidence, this thesis charts the operational employment of the Militia, its relationship with the AIF, the perceptions of commanders at various levels and the tension provoked by the army encouraging men to opt for unrestricted service. Providing an integrated analysis that has previously been lacking, this thesis also examines broader issues associated with the Militia including political and social debate over conscription along with representations of the Militia in the press and official and unofficial histories. In according the wartime Militia its first detailed analysis, the thesis explores the relationship between a partly conscripted force in an army and society with a celebrated volunteer ethos.

Recent research has noted the persistence of a long continuum of "anti-welfare" discourses that are increasingly embedded in the UK news media, political communication, and popular culture (e.g. Golding and Middleton 1982. Images of Welfare: Press and Public Attitudes to Poverty. Oxford: Mark Robertson; Jensen 2014. "Welfare Commonsense, Poverty Porn and Doxosophy." Sociological Research Online 19 (3): 277–283; Morrison 2019. Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths. London: Zed Books). Historical distinctions between the "deserving" and "undeserving poor" have been sharpened by successive governments in the service of varying shades of neoliberal governance. While Margaret Thatcher castigated "shirkers" in fostering an ideology of economic self-reliance, both New Labour and the Coalition obsessed over "welfare reform": promoting an ideology of "work" in symbolic opposition to supposed cultures of "worklessness". But, while "scroungerphobia" (Deacon 1978. "The Scrounging Controversy: Public Attitudes Towards the Unemployed in Contemporary Britain." Social Policy and Administration 12 (2): 120–135) is now a widely recognised sociological phenomenon, scholarly attention to the concept has largely been reserved for its manifestation in tabloid newspapers, political rhetoric and, latterly, "poverty porn" television. Even recent work considering the public's contribution to scrounger discourse(s) on social media focuses on mainstream platforms, such as Twitter and newspaper comment threads (e.g. Van Der Bom et al. 2018. "'It's not the Fact They Claim Benefits but Their Useless, Lazy, Drug Taking Lifestyles we Despise': Analysing Audience Responses to Benefits Street Using Live Tweets." Discourse, Context & Media 21: 36–45; Morrison 2019. Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths. London: Zed Books; Paterson 2020). This paper begins to address this oversight, by examining how normative anti-welfare discourses infiltrate everyday communication in more disparate online communities – including niche consumer forums. ...

This article argues that long-standing press portrayals of economic migrants as threats to Britain's economic wellbeing underwent a marked turn immediately after the 2016 'Brexit' referendum. Following an intense campaign during which most national newspapers problematised European Union free movement, the month after the vote saw even 'Euro-sceptic' titles shift towards emphasising the economic costs of ending it. Within six months, however, discourses framing migrants as 'invaders' and/or 'exploiters' resurfaced. The article conceptualises the immediate post-referendum period as one of discursive aftershock, as key actors struggled to absorb the outcome and newspapers accustomed to years of spoon-feeding with simplistic pro- and anti-European Union rhetoric scrambled to find fresh sources of newsworthy conflict in a 'post-war' climate. In so doing, it contributes to our understanding of the multidirectional complexity of the agenda-setting process, by showing how shifts in the nature of public debate can help re-frame the narrative preoccupations of the media.

What should pluralistic punditry look like in a multi-party parliamentary democracy? How should a state-owned broadcaster's flagship political show populate its panels before elections to guarantee balance between Left, Right and Centre, eliminate perceptions of bias, and maintain that most disputed measure of fairness: impartiality?