The Palgrave handbook of sociocultural perspectives on global mental health. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ross G. White, Sumeet Jain, David M.R. Orr, Ursula M. Read, editors.
• Editors: White, Ross G; Jain, Sumeet; Orr, David M. R; Read, Ursula M
• Contents: Situating global mental health : sociocultural perspectives / Ross G. White, David M.R. Orr, Ursula M. Read, and Sumeet Jain -- Part I. Mental health across the globe : conceptual perspectives from social science and humanities -- Occupying space : mental health geography and global directions / Cheryl McGeachan and Chris Philo -- Cross-cultural psychiatry and validity in DSM-5 / Tim thornton -- Historical reflections on mental health and illness : India, Japan, and the West / Christopher Harding -- Reflecting on the medicalization of distress / Gavin Miller -- Diverse approaches to recovery from severe mental illness / Heather M Aldersey, Ademola B. Adeponle, and Robert Whitley -- Positive mental health and wellbeing / Sarah C. White and Carola Eyber -- Global mental health and psychopharmacology in precarious ecologies : anthropological considerations for engagement and efficacy / Janis H. Jenkins and Ellen Kozelka -- Commentary on 'Mental health across the globe : conceptual perspectives from social science and humanities' section / Duncan Pedersen. Part II. Globalising mental health : challenges and new visions -- 'Global mental health spreads like bush fire in the global south' : efforts to scale up mental health services in low and middle-income countries / China Mills and Ross G. White -- Community mental health competencies : a new vision for global mental health / Rochelle Burgess and Kaaren Mathias -- Three challenges to a life course approach in global mental health : epistemic violence, temporality and forced migration / Charles Watters -- Addressing mental health related stigma in a global context / Ross G. White, Padmavati Ramachandran, and Shuba Kumar -- The effects of societal violence in war and post-war contexts / Hanna Kienzler and Peter Locke -- Medical pluralism and global mental health / David M.R. Orr and Serena Bindi -- Mental health law in a global context / Jill Stavert -- Suicide in low- and middle-income countries / Baffour Boaten Boahen-Boaten, Ross G. White, and Rory. C. O'Connor -- Anthropology and global mental health : depth, breadth, and relevance / Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark Eggerman -- Balancing the local and the global : commentary on "Globalising mental health : challenges and new visions' section / Crick Lund. Part III. Case studies of innovative practice and policy -- BasicNeeds : scaling up mental health and development / Chris Underhill, Shoba Raja, and Sebastian Farquhar -- Voices from the field : a Cambodian-led approach to mental health / Lucy Gamble -- Synthesizing global and local knowledge for the development of maternal mental health care : two cases from South Africa / Sara Cooper, Simone Honikman, Ingrid Meintjes and Mark Tomlinson -- Towards school-based interventions for mental health in Nigeria / Bolanle Ola and Olayinka Atilola -- A family-based intervention for people with a psychotic disorder in Nicaragua / Rimke van der Geest -- The distress of Makutu : some cultural-clinical considerations of Māori witchcraft / Ingo Lambrecht -- Engaging indigenous people in mental health services in Australia / Timothy A. Carey and Dennis R. Mcdermott -- Language, measurement, and structural violence : global mental health case studies from Haiti and the Dominican Republic / Hunter M. Keys and Bonnie N. Kaiser -- Taking the psychiatrist to school : the development of a dream-a-world cultural therapy program for behaviorally disturbed and academically underperforming primary school children in Jamaica / Frederick W. Hickling -- Brain gain in Uganda : a case study of peer working as an adjunct to statutory mental health care in a low income country / Cerdic Hall, David Baillie, David Basangwa, and Joseph Atukunda -- commit and act in Sierra Leone / Corinna stewart, Beate Ebert, and Hannah Bockarie -- Globalisation of pesticide ingestion in suicides : an overview from a deltaic region of a middle-income nation, India / Sohini Banerjee and Arabinda N. Chowdhury -- Mapping difficult terrains : the writing of policy on mental health / Alok Sarin and Sanjeev Jain -- Mental health in primary health care : the Karuna trust experience / N.S. Prashanth, V.S. Sridharan, Tanya Seshadri, H. sudarshan, K.V. Kishore Kumar and R. Srinivasa Murthy -- Iswar sankalpa : experience with the homeless persons with mental illness / Debashis Chatterjee and Sarbani Das Roy -- Commentary on 'Case studies of innovative practice and policy' section / Rachel Tribe.
• Publisher Details: London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 807 pages)
• Subjects: 362.2; Psychology; Mental health services; World health; Social medicine; Medical anthropology; Psychology, clinical; Economic development; Psychiatry; Medicine; Psychopharmacology; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Medical anthropology; Mental health services; Social medicine; World health; Social Science -- Developing Countries; Medical -- Public Health; Medical -- Psychiatry -- General; Medical -- General; Medical -- Psychiatry -- Psychopharmacology; Development studies; Public health & preventive medicine; Psychiatry; Medicine: general issues; Psychopharmacology; Psychology -- Clinical Psychology; Clinical psychology; Mental Health Services; Sociological Factors; Global Health; Cultural Characteristics; Anthropology, Medical -- methods; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137395108; 1137395109; 1137395095; 9781137395092
• Related ISBNs: 9781137395092
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 1, 2017).
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