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Title The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill, and Arthur Kleinman.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
2015

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Description 1 online resource (362 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 / Rene 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Mental illness -- Africa.
Health care reform -- Africa.
Social status -- Africa.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku, editor.
Hill, Allan G., editor.
Kleinman, Arthur, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015] 9780253012869 (DNLM)101647836
ISBN 9780253012869 (cl : alk. paper)
9780253012937 (pb : alk. paper)
9780253013040 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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