Improving mental health care : the global challenge / edited by Graham Thornicroft, Mirella Ruggeri, David Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thornicroft, Graham.

Ruggeri, Mirella.

Goldberg, David P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health services.

Mental Health Services.

Community Mental Health Services.

Delivery of Health Care.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Global Health.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Health Services.

Community Mental Health Services.

Delivery of Health Care.

Mental Disorders--therapy.

Socioeconomic Factors.

Global Health.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Summary:

What types of mental health care are right for the 21st century-in all countries around the world? What is the best balance of primary care and specialist mental health care for people with mental illness? What is the best evidence for effective treatments and services? Which methods are most suitable for answering these questions? These are the tough issues addressed by this book. Leading experts from across the world bring their experience to bear in a series of chapters that set out the very best evidence in this field. They present clear accounts of what is known, extensively referenced, with critical appraisals of the strength of the evidence and the robustness of the conclusions that can be drawn. This book was inspired by the work of Michele Tansella on the development of community care globally. It comprises four sections, identifying the challenges associated with providing mental health services in high-, middle- and low-income countries, then describing ways to meet these challenges. A section on new research methods to produce practical evidence is a novel aspect of the book. The final section addresses how best to deliver new forms of care, bearing in mind the human resources available. The chapters extensively cite specific studies to enhance the practical relevance. Much of the cited research involves service users so their voice is heard throughout the text. Mental health is rapidly becoming recognised as one of the leading global health challenges. This book adds to our knowledge of the challenge and the solutions and stands to make a significant contribution to global mental health. Book jacket.

Contents:

The nature and scale of the global mental health challenge / Mirella Ruggeri, Graham Thornicroft, & David Goldberg

Scaling up mental health care in resource poor settings / Shekhar Saxena, Benedetto Saraceno, and Justin Granstein

Swings and roundabouts of community psychiatry : the UK fairground / Peter Tyrer

Mental health services and recovery / Mike Slade ... [et al.]

Implementing evidence-based treatments in routine mental health services / Antonio Lasalvia and Mirella Ruggeri

The need for new models of care for people with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries / Ruben Alvarado ... [et al.]

The role of primary care in low- and middle- income countries / David Goldberg, Graham Thornicroft and Nadja van Ginneken

Meeting the challenge of physical co-morbidity and unhealthy lifestyles / Lorenzo Burti ... [et al.]

Complex interventions in mental health services research : potential, limitations and challenges / Thomas Becker and Berndt Puschner

The feasibility of applying the clinical staging paradigm to the care of people with mental disorders / Javier Vâazquez-Bourgon ... [et al.]

Work, mental health, and depression / Aart Schene ... [et al.]

Training mental health providers in better communication with their patients / Christa Zimmermann ... [et al.]

Making an economic case for community mental health services / Martin Knapp

Incorporating local information and prior expert knowledge to evidence-informed mental health system research / Luis Salvador-Carulla ... [et al.]

Innovative epidemiological methods / Francesco Amaddeo ... [et al.]

Routine outcome monitoring : a tool to improve the quality of mental health care? / Sjord Sytema and Lian van der Krieke

Psychiatric case registers : their use in the era of global mental health / Povl Munk-Jorgensen ... [et al.]

Can brain imaging address psychosocial functioning and outcome in schizophrenia? / Marcella Bellani, Nicola Dusi, and Paolo Brambilla

Statistics and the evaluation of the effects of randomised health care interventions / Graham Dunn

Service user involvement in in mental health research / Diana Rose

Psychotropic drug epidemiology and systematic reviews of randomised clinical trials : the roads travelled, the roads ahead / Andrea Cipriani, Michela Nosè, and Corrado Barbui

Services for people with severe mental disorders in high-income countries : from efficacy to effectiveness / Paul Bebbington, Elizabeth Kuipers & David Fowler

The management of mental disorders in the primary care setting

Matteo Balestrieri

How many wobbly planks in the platform of mental health care? / Norman Sartorius

Treatment gaps and knowledge gaps in mental health : schizophrenia as a global challenge / Assen Jablensky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781118337974

1118337972

9781118337981

1118337980

9781118337998

1118337999

9781118338001

1118338006

9781118338018

1118338014

OCLC:

826287981