World Mental Health Casebook

by Cohen, Alex; Kleinman, Arthur; Saraceno, Benedetto

• ISBN13: 9780306467325
• ISBN10: 0306467321
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(26)
Rehabilitation of Schizophrenia Patients in China: The Shanghai Model	27	(24)
Doris F. Chang
Xu Yifeng
Arthur Kleinman
Joan Kleinman
Enhancing Adherence: The Role of Group Psychotherapy in the Treatment of MDR-TB in Urban Peru	51	(30)
Annika Sweetland
Julio Acha Albujar
Dalia Guerra Echevarria
Mental Health Promoter Training with Guatemalan Refugee Women in Mexico City and the Camps of Southern Mexico	81	(40)
Deborah L. Billings
India Saenz
Mental Health Services in Primary Care: the Case of Nepal	121	(32)
Sarah Acland
``Our Lives Were Covered in Darkness'': The Work of the National Literacy Mission in Northern India	153	(38)
Alex Cohen
The Risk of Freedom: Mental Health Services in Trieste	191	(30)
Alex Cohen
Benedetto Saraceno
Indigenous Models for Attenuation of Postpartum Depression: Case Studies from Fiji and Hong Kong	221	(16)
Anne E. Becker
Dominic T. S. Lee
About the Contributors	237	(6)
Index	243