The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill, and Arthur Kleinman.
Contributor(s): Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku [editor.] | Hill, Allan G [editor.] | Kleinman, Arthur [editor.].
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]Description: 249 p. ; cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253012937 (pb : alk. paper).Subject(s): Mental Disorders -- Africa | Cultural Characteristics -- Africa | Health Care Reform -- methods -- Africa | Socioeconomic Factors -- AfricaGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC451 .A43C85 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000009932 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.