TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akyeampong,Emmanuel Kwaku
AU  - Hill,Allan G.
AU  - Kleinman,Arthur
TI  - The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa
SN  - 9780253012869 (cl : alk. paper)
AV  - RC451.A43 C85 2015
U1  - 362.196890096 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - Africa
KW  - Cultural Characteristics
KW  - Health Care Reform
KW  - methods
KW  - Socioeconomic Factors
N1  - 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
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