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ISBN 13 : 9789966499523
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Essentials of Clinical Psychiatry for Sub-Saharan Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Omigbodun, Olayinka
Publisher : Book Builders
ISBN 13 : 9789211597
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Mental Health Care in sub-Saharan Africa written by Omigbodun, Olayinka and published by Book Builders. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy percent of the global burden of mental disorders is located in low and middle income countries (LMIC),including sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, in Africa,only 0.62% of the national health budget is allocated to mental health compared to a global median of 2.8% and 5% in Europe. The government is the source of funding in 62%of patients with severe mental disorder in the World Health Organisation (WHO), Africa Region, the lowest of all the WHO regions, and lower compared to a global median of 79%. This is compounded by poor resources, with mental health outpatient facilities in WHO Africa Region being less that 10% of the global median. To address these problems, the WHO launched its Mental Health Action Gap Programme (mhGAP) in 2008, to scale-up mental health services in low and middle income countries (LMIC). The book is directed to all policy makers in sub-Saharan Africa to aid decision making about the urgent need for sustainable and relevant mental health care strategies, and the important areas that need priority. The book should be helpful to local and international researchers in formulating research questions relevant to the African continent and it will be of interest to medical practitioners and students in the region as adjunct to standard text books.
Author : Lauraine M. H. Vivian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560508
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book amaXhosa Circumcision written by Lauraine M. H. Vivian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates amaXhosa circumcision and the psychological processes involved. Lauraine Vivian employs concepts such as resilience, orthodoxy, broken men, and reciprocity to examine the experiences of men who have developed mental health issues in relation to their initiation into manhood. The chapters cover sensitive topics such as physical injury, pain, harm, and women’s agency. Drawing on the stories of over seventy amaXhosa men, the book provides rare insight into circumcision and psychotic experience.
Author : Peter Verhagen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118378423
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Religion and Psychiatry written by Peter Verhagen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion (and spirituality) is very much alive and shapes the cultural values and aspirations of psychiatrist and patient alike, as does the choice of not identifying with a particular faith. Patients bring their beliefs and convictions into the doctor-patient relationship. The challenge for mental health professionals, whatever their own world view, is to develop and refine their vocabularies such that they truly understand what is communicated to them by their patients. Religion and Psychiatry provides psychiatrists with a framework for this understanding and highlights the importance of religion and spirituality in mental well-being. This book aims to inform and explain, as well as to be thought provoking and even controversial. Patiently and thoroughly, the authors consider why and how, when and where religion (and spirituality) are at stake in the life of psychiatric patients. The interface between psychiatry and religion is explored at different levels, varying from daily clinical practice to conceptual fieldwork. The book covers phenomenology, epidemiology, research data, explanatory models and theories. It also reviews the development of DSM V and its awareness of the importance of religion and spirituality in mental health. What can religious traditions learn from each other to assist the patient? Religion and Psychiatry discusses this, as well as the neurological basis of religious experiences. It describes training programmes that successfully incorporate aspects of religion and demonstrates how different religious and spiritual traditions can be brought together to improve psychiatric training and daily practice. Describes the relationship of the main world religions with psychiatry Considers training, policy and service delivery Provides powerful support for more effective partnerships between psychiatry and religion in day to day clinical care This is the first time that so many psychiatrists, psychologists and theologians from all parts of the world and from so many different religious and spiritual backgrounds have worked together to produce a book like this one. In that sense, it truly is a World Psychiatric Association publication. Religion and Psychiatry is recommended reading for residents in psychiatry, postgraduates in theology, psychology and psychology of religion, researchers in psychiatric epidemiology and trans-cultural psychiatry, as well as professionals in theology, psychiatry and psychology of religion
Author : Charles B. Nemeroff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190259450
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder written by Charles B. Nemeroff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the leaders in the field of PTSD research to present an up-to-date summary and understanding of this complex disorder. All of our current knowledge and controversies concerning the diagnosis, epidemiology, course, pathophysiology and treatment are described in detail. The evidence for efficacy for each of the different forms of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy is reviewed. Particular attention is paid to at-risk groups, including minorities, and coverage of PTSD throughout the world is reviewed as well. The authors present state-of-the-art findings in genetics, epigenetics, neurotransmitter function and brain imaging to provide the most current and comprehensive review of this burgeoning field.
Author : Samuel O. Okpaku
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303057296X
Total Pages : 2272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Innovations in Global Mental Health written by Samuel O. Okpaku and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 2272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life. Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented. Programs for training and education have expanded as a result. Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements. Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks. With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders—25 percent of the world’s non-communicable disease burden—rising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes. This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances. Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.
Author : Doris Buss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317679970
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies written by Doris Buss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social and political climate within which some patterns of sexual violence unfold, and the increased policy and institutional responses shaping post-conflict environments. The chapters are organized around three main themes: the continuities between conflict sexual violence and post-conflict insecurity; the troubling category of "victim" and its representation in post-conflict settings; and the international contexts – such as international programming, aid and justice interventions – that shape how conflict sexual violence is addressed. The authors come to the topic from various academic disciplines - anthropology, gender studies, law, and psychology - and from different non-academic contexts, including civil society organizations in affected regions, and policy and activist organizations in the Global North. Collectively the chapters in this volume offer complex and detailed analysis of some of the debates and dynamics shaping contemporary understandings of conflict sexual violence, highlighting, in turn, new insights and emerging topics on which further research and advocacy is needed.
Author : Ferdi P. Kruger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527553116
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book A Liturgical Praxeology on the Rehearsal of Attitudes written by Ferdi P. Kruger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a target audience of scholars working in Practical Theology, especially scholars interested in the functioning of attitudes, cognition, and remembrance. In understanding this book, it will be vital to realize that the author is connecting liturgy's face, interface, and outlook to the concepts of attitude, cognition, and remembrance. The book embarks on the importance of a liturgy that should connect with everyday life and a liturgy that enables its participants to make divulgences that can enhance its meaningfulness to its participants. This book is directed to an audience interested in an interdisciplinary approach to liturgics, liturgists in congregations and people concerned with liturgy's meaningfulness.
Author : David Musyimi Ndetei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The African Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health written by David Musyimi Ndetei and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel O. Okpaku
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867539
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Essentials of Global Mental Health written by Samuel O. Okpaku and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental illness accounts directly for 14% of the global burden of disease and significantly more indirectly, and recent reports recognise the need to expand and improve mental health delivery on a global basis, especially in low and middle income countries. This text defines an approach to mental healthcare focused on the provision of evidence-based, cost-effective treatments, founded on the principles of sharing the best information about common problems and achieving international equity in coverage, options and outcomes. The coverage spans a diverse range of topics and defines five priority areas for the field. These embrace the domains of global advocacy, systems of development, research progress, capacity building, and monitoring. The book concludes by defining the steps to achieving equality of care globally. This is essential reading for policy makers, administrators, economists and mental health care professionals, and those from the allied professions of sociology, anthropology, international politics and foreign policy.
Author : Emmanuel Akyeampong
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253013046
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Practice in Africa written by Emmanuel Akyeampong and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.
Author : Uganda National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309148804
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Uganda National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, and most do not have the resources to obtain treatment. The Uganda National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine hosted a workshop to discuss the state of care for MNS disorders in sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Marie-Antoinette Sossou
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781634852760
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Mental Health Conditions and Services in Selected African Countries written by Marie-Antoinette Sossou and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental-health conditions and services in most African countries are of great concern. There is a stark distinction of health disparities between urban and rural communities across these countries. There is an unequal divide in the allocation of resources for health related services, and mental health services have become a political decision more than the fair distribution of resources. The situation is even worse in the less developed countries across the various sub-regions. People all over the African continent are increasingly being affected by many common psychological and mental health disorders, as well as illnesses that go untreated for many years. This book is based on the assumption that there is a need to examine the conditions/services of mental health prevailing in different African countries to inform and educate people about the situation, and also to serve as an additional source of knowledge on African mental health issues. Additionally, there is a dearth of literature on mental health services from multiple African countries accessible through one anthology. Also notable is that the social work and human services professions in Africa lack textbooks written by indigenous African educators on pertinent issues affecting the people in the continent. Therefore, this book serves to fill that gap and to contribute to literature concerning Africa. The book examines mental health conditions and services in terms of diagnoses, causes, treatment and psycho-social services provided by some countries in Africa, namely Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia. Even though, mental health issues have been written about by some African mental health specialists and experts, the chapters in this book are written mostly by African social work professionals and psychologists, and this is presumably the first of its kind. Each country describes the situations, conditions, resources, stigma/discrimination, traditional beliefs and practices concerning mental health, and also discusses the ways to improve the conditions and services for these populations.
Author : Mark Cameron Edberg
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763780456
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Essentials of Health, Culture, and Diversity written by Mark Cameron Edberg and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides students of public health with tools and perspectives for understanding the relationship between culture and health. Effective promotion programs cannot be realized without attention to the cultural context. As part of the Essentials Public Health series, this critical text introduces the concept of culture as a framework for understanding human behavior and health."--Back cover.
Author : Linda Gask
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1911623028
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Primary Care Mental Health written by Linda Gask and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to this emerging field, fully updated to cover clinical, policy, and practical issues with a user-centred approach.
Author : Helen Hall
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 192505828X
Total Pages : 3545 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Fundamentals of Nursing & Midwifery written by Helen Hall and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 3545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trusted person-centred resource to start you on the path to professional success Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery is a popular foundational nursing text specifically developed for Australian and New Zealand students. This comprehensive resource provides a detailed overview of key information with person-centred care highlighted throughout to focus on the individualistic, interactive and holistic nature of nursing and midwifery practice. It uses accessible language that introduces students to the ‘why’ as well as the ‘how’ of nursing and midwifery. It focuses not only on a person’s physical healthcare needs, but also on the intellectual, emotional, sociocultural and spiritual aspects of care. In this way, students learn to be holistic health care professionals while acquiring the foundational knowledge, procedures and skills required for successful nursing or midwifery practice.
Author : David Baron
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323395813
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Clinical Psychiatry: Recent Advances and Future Directions, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America written by David Baron and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in clinical psychiatry are presented by David Baron and Lawrence Gross in this issue of Psychiatric Clinics. Psychiatrists will find here disorders they deal with daily in patients and topics include Advances in: Addictive disorders; Geriatric and healthy aging; Trauma and violence; PTSD; Schizophrenia; Intellectual disabilities; Neuropsychiatry, Psychopharmacology; Integrated care - psychiatry and primary care; Global and cultural psychiatry; Mood disorders. Also presented are the Future role of psychotherapy in psychiatry; Public mental health in the Affordable Care Act era; Genetics; and Diagnostic classification (DSM criteria) how they are transitioning in future - DSM V and beyond.
