Promoting Mental Health in Scarce-Resource Contexts Emerging Evidence and Practice

by Petersen, Inge; Bhana, Arvin; Flisher, Alan J.; Swartz, Leslie; Richter, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780796923035
• ISBN10: 0796923035
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: HSRC Press

Summary

Promoting mental health demands actions that enhance resilience in individuals, families and communities, and ensure health enhancing policy and legislative frameworks. These actions are at the heart of human development, and can assist in improving social and economic prospects for people in low-to middle-income countries.

Author Biography

Inge Petersen is a professor of psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Arvin Bhana is a psychologist; the deputy executive director at the child, youth, family, and social-development research program of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC); and an adjunct associate professor of psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Alan J. Flisher is a professor and the head of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is the coeditor of Promoting Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in East and Southern Africa. Leslie Swartz is a professor of psychology at the University of Stellenbosch and a former director in the child, youth, family, and social-development research program at the HSRC. She is the coauthor of Zip Zip My Brain Harts: Photographs by Angela Buckland and the coeditor of Disability and Social Change: A South African Agenda. Linda Richter is the executive director of the child, youth, family and social-development research program at the HSRC. She is the coauthor of Family and Community Interventions for Children Affected by AIDS and National Household HIV Prevalence and Risk Survey of South African Children and the coeditor of Baba: Men and Fatherhood in South Africa, Reflective Practice: Psychodynamic Ideas in the Community, and Sexual Abuse of Young Children in Southern Africa.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. vi
Foreword	p. vii
Abbreviations and acronyms	p. x
The imperative for, and emerging practice of, mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders in scarce-resource contexts
At the heart of development: an introduction to mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders in scarce-resource contexts	p. 3
Theoretical considerations: from understanding to intervening	p. 21
Contextual issues	p. 49
Evaluating interventions	p. 60
From science to service	p. 82
Mental health promotion and the prevention of mental disorders across the lifespan
Early childhood	p. 99
Middle childhood and pre-adolescence	p. 124
Adolescence	p. 143
Adulthood	p. 167
Older people	p. 180
Afterword: cross-cutting issues central to mental health promotion in scarce-resource contexts	p. 208
Contributors	p. 214
Index	p. 215
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