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World Mental Health Casebook

Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries

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Editors:
  1. Alex Cohen

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston

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  2. Arthur Kleinman

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston

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  3. Benedetto Saraceno

    1. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Alex Cohen, Arthur Kleinman, Benedetto Saraceno
    Pages 1-26

  3. Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia Patients in China

    • Doris F. Chang, Xu Yifeng, Arthur Kleinman, Joan Kleinman
    Pages 27-50

  4. Enhancing Adherence

    • Annika Sweetland, Julio Acha Albújar, Dalia Guerra Echevarria
    Pages 51-79

  5. Mental Health Promoter Training with Guatemalan Refugee Women in Mexico City and the Camps of Southern Mexico

    • Deborah L. Billings, Inda Sáenz
    Pages 81-120

  6. Mental Health Services in Primary Care

    • Sarah Acland
    Pages 121-152

  7. “Our Lives Were Covered in Darkness”

    • Alex Cohen
    Pages 153-189

  8. The Risk of Freedom

    • Alex Cohen, Benedetto Saraceno
    Pages 191-220

  9. Indigenous Models for Attenuation of Postpartum Depression

    • Anne E. Becker, Dominic T. S. Lee
    Pages 221-236

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 237-246
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About this book

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.

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"This book is … on mental health from a global perspective. … the book provides a welcome break from the mainstream psychiatric literature in its effort to document mental health issues relevant to the vast majority of the world’s population living in low- and middle-income countries. … I enjoyed reading this book … . I recommend this book to anyone interested in the evaluation of mental health-care programs in developing countries." (Vikram Patel, Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 41 (2), June, 2004)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harvard Medical School, Boston

    Alex Cohen, Arthur Kleinman

  • World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Benedetto Saraceno

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: World Mental Health Casebook

  • Book Subtitle: Social and Mental Health Programs in Low-Income Countries

  • Editors: Alex Cohen, Arthur Kleinman, Benedetto Saraceno

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b112400

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46732-5Published: 30 April 2002

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-7676-8Published: 20 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-306-47686-0Published: 08 May 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 246

  • Topics: Public Health, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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