The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa / / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill, and Arthur Kleinman
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| Titolo: |
The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa / / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill, and Arthur Kleinman
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| Pubblicazione: | Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (700 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.196890096 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mental illness - Africa |
| Health care reform - Africa | |
| Social status - Africa | |
| Malalties mentals | |
| Psiquiatria | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | AkyeampongEmmanuel Kwaku |
| HillAllan G. | |
| KleinmanArthur | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa |
| ISBN: | 0-253-01304-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818286103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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