The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa /
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| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- A historical overview of psychiatry in Africa / Emmanuel Akyeampong
- Common mental disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa : the triad of depression, anxiety, and somatization / Vikram Patel and Dan J. Stein
- Schizophrenia and psychosis in West Africa / Ursula M. Read, Victor C. K. Doku, and Ama de-Graft Aikins
- Mental illness and destitution in Ghana : a social-psychological perspective / Ama de-Graft Aikins
- Children and adolescent mental health in South Africa / Alan Flisher, Andrew Dawes, Zuhayr Kafaar, Crick Lund, Katherine Sorsdahl, Bronwyn Myers, Rita Thom, and Soraya Seedat
- Some aspects of mental illness in French-speaking West Africa / René Collignon
- Women's self-reported mental health in Accra, Ghana / Allan G. Hill and Victoria de Menil
- One thing leads to another : sex, AIDS, and mental health reform in South Africa / Pamela Y. Collins
- Health care professionals' mental health and well-being in the era of HIV/AIDS : perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa / Giuseppe Raviola
- The role of traditional healers in mental health care in Africa / Elialilia Okello and Seggane Musisi
- Improving access to psychiatric medicines in Africa / Shoba Raja, Sarah Kippen Wood, and Michael R. Reich
- Child soldiers and community reconciliation in postwar Sierra Leone : African psychiatry in the twenty-first century / William P. Murphy
- Using mixed methods to plan and evaluate mental health programs for war-affected children in Sub-Saharan Africa / Theresa Betancourt.