World Mental Health Casebook : Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries

Rehabilitation Of Schizophrenia Patients In China: The Shanghai Model -- Enhancing Adherence: The Role Of Group Psychotherapy In The Treatment Of Mdr-tb In Urban Peru -- Mental Health Promoter Training With Guatemalan Refugee Women In Mexico City And The Camps Of Southern Mexico -- Mental Health Services In Primary Care: The Case Of Nepal -- Our Lives Were Covered In Darkness: The Work Of The National Literacy Mission In Northern India -- The Risk Of Freedom: Mental Health Services In Trieste -- Indigenous Models For Attenuation Of Postpartum Depression: Case Studies From Fiji And Hong Kong. Edited By Alex Cohen, Arthur Kleinman, And Benedetto Saraceno. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In the past dozen years, the field of international mental health has been transformed from a sub-discipline that attracted only a handful of anthropologists, psychiatrists, and psychologists, into a field that has now become a major concern in international public health. The World Mental Health Casebook will serve as a resource for those engaged in the widening efforts to address the burden of mental disorders in low-income countries. The case studies contained here describe: the "Shanghai Model" of psychiatric rehabilitation for persons with schizophrenia, an extraordinary mental health program for poor patients in Lima, Peru who are undergoing treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, how Guatemalan refugee women in Mexico were trained to become mental health promoters, the development of mental health services in primary care settings in Nepal, the attempts to improve the lives of women in India through literacy programs, the radical reform of psychiatric services in Trieste, Italy, and research from Fiji and Hong Kong that shows how traditional practices can lower the prevalence of post-partum depression. Each case history, through concrete and pragmatic examples, offers lessons that can inform the functioning of services elsewhere. In general, the Casebook, will also encourage others to undertake careful documentation and evaluation of programs so that the mistakes of the past can be avoided, and the successes replicated Using real cases based in the South Pacific, Asia, South and Latin America and Europe, this volume sets out examples of community-based interventions that have succeeded by implementing outreach to the families and community to identify those in need, reliable and adequate drug supplies, treatment interventions, healthy psychosocial environments. This book will interest mental health professionals, international public health workers, global program administrators, and clinicians and healthcare workers. The most comprehensive psychiatric epidemiological study in China reported a point prevalence of schizophrenia of 6.06 cases per thousand in urban areas and 3.42 per thousand in rural settings (Coordinating Group for the 12-Region Epidemiological Survey of Mental Illnesses, 1986). "This book will interest mental health professionals, international public health workers, global program administrators, and clinicians and healthcare workers, all working with low-income areas."--BOOK JACKET.