Overview
- Provides key insights into community mental health care in low resource settings
- Includes important case studies and discussions on region-specific innovations and approaches
- Highlights role of community coalitions such as with caregivers, faith healers, local government institutions, youth clubs, volunteers, self-help groups as indispensable to community mental health care
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- mental health services in India
- lack of diagnosis of mental disorders
- challenges in mental health care in India
- Rural Mental Health Programme
- The Banyan
- Anjali in West Bengal
- Mental Health Action Trust
- private sector in health care provision
- ASHWINI NGO
- natural disasters and mental care provisions
- stakeholders in community mental health care
- refugees and mental health
- working with the homeless and mentall ill
- poverty and mental illness
About this book
This book discusses approaches used by NGOs in formulating and implementing mental health care in the community in the context of high treatment gap, insufficient public expenditure on health, human resource shortages, heterogeneity of communities as well as cultural beliefs in India. It uses a qualitative case study approach to document and analyse the work of some major NGO-run community mental health programmes in India, all of which cater to vulnerable populations and are in different and diverse regional settings. It casts the spotlight on envisioning community mental health in policy and law, implementation by the government, how it is practised by select NGOs and the challenges involved in programme implementation. In doing so, it hopes to understand the trigger factors that have led to NGOs embarking on community mental health programmes: how needs of the community are understood, the funding mechanisms, how the human resource gap was addressed, type of networks formedin the community, therapeutic and social interventions, accountability mechanisms, achievements and limitations of the programmes. This book is for students and researchers in the fields of social work and psychology, and NGOs, government and funding agencies, and for those interested in understanding and working with community mental health programmes.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gayathri Balagopal is an independent researcher based in Chennai whose work experience has been in the development sector as consultant with The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health, Health Portfolio of Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust and Madras Institute of Development Studies. She is co-editor of the book, Elderly Care in India: Societal and State Responses (2017) with Professor S. Irudaya Rajan. Her research has focussed attention on health and social care among the elderly, rehabilitation of homeless women with mental health issues, employment problems confronting persons with mental health issues, community mental health programmes and social protection in India. Her research interests are in public health, mental health, gerontology and social protection.
Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS). She has worked at St. John’s Research Institute, Bengaluru and Karuna Trust, Bengaluru earlier. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals. She was one of the collaborators of the National Mental Health Survey of India 2015-16, which was published by NIMHANS. She has researched individual and family factors associated with psychological distress and well-being in young adults, rehabilitation and recovery in persons with mental illness, and community mental health programmes in India. Her research interests are in public mental health, creative and expressive arts in mental health, mental health rehabilitation and recovery, peace and conflict resolution.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mental Health Care Services in Community Settings
Book Subtitle: Discussions on NGO Approaches in India
Authors: Gayathri Balagopal, Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9101-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9100-2Published: 25 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9103-3Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9101-9Published: 16 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 204
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Work and Community Development, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychiatry