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21st century global mental health /

Contributor(s): Sorel, Eliot, 1940-.
Publisher: Boston : Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2013Description: xxiv, 399 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781449627874 (pbk.); 9781449627874:; 1449627870 (pbk.).Subject(s): Mental health | Mental illness | Mental health policy | Medical policy | Mentally ill -- Services for | Mental health services | World healthDDC classification: 362.19689
Contents:
Global mental health epidemiology -- Comparison between ICD and DSM diagnostic systems for mental disorders -- New directions in diagnosis research domain criteria and global mental health -- The social determinants of mental health -- Culture, ethnicity, and psychopharmacology -- Family, psychosocial, and cultural determinants of health -- Child mental health in the 21st century : universal challenges -- Global disasters, war, conflict, complex emergencies : caring for special populations -- Attending to the needs of the severely and persistently mentally ill -- Mental health and HIV in Africa -- Substance abuse and mental health in Africa -- Integrating mental health into primary care : lessons from the experience of Chile -- Reforming the mental health system (the balanced care model of community-based services on the continuum of mental health care) -- Mental health system development : the international observatory of mental health systems -- Stigma, discrimination, and human rights -- Recent trends in mental health policy in the United States -- Mental health policy and the media.
Summary: Although there have been notable scientific advances in the global mental health domain, challenges still remain in knowledge transmission and application, as well as in access to care and in eradicating shame, stigma and discrimination. This book examines progress made to date, as well as outlining the challenges that still remain.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global mental health epidemiology -- Comparison between ICD and DSM diagnostic systems for mental disorders -- New directions in diagnosis research domain criteria and global mental health -- The social determinants of mental health -- Culture, ethnicity, and psychopharmacology -- Family, psychosocial, and cultural determinants of health -- Child mental health in the 21st century : universal challenges -- Global disasters, war, conflict, complex emergencies : caring for special populations -- Attending to the needs of the severely and persistently mentally ill -- Mental health and HIV in Africa -- Substance abuse and mental health in Africa -- Integrating mental health into primary care : lessons from the experience of Chile -- Reforming the mental health system (the balanced care model of community-based services on the continuum of mental health care) -- Mental health system development : the international observatory of mental health systems -- Stigma, discrimination, and human rights -- Recent trends in mental health policy in the United States -- Mental health policy and the media.

Although there have been notable scientific advances in the global mental health domain, challenges still remain in knowledge transmission and application, as well as in access to care and in eradicating shame, stigma and discrimination. This book examines progress made to date, as well as outlining the challenges that still remain.

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