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Improving mental health care : the global challenge / edited by Graham Thornicroft, Mirella Ruggeri, David Goldberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thornicroft, Graham, author.
- Ruggeri, Mirella, author.
- Goldberg, David P., author.
- Series:
- World Psychiatric Association
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental health services.
- Community mental health services.
- Medical care.
- Mental illness--Treatment.
- Mental illness.
- World health.
- Mental Health Services.
- Community Mental Health Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Global Health.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Patient Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mental Health Services.
- Community Mental Health Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Global Health.
- Mental Disorders--therapy.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Patient Care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 438 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Global challenge
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Written by many of the world's leading practitioners in the delivery of mental health care, this book clearly presents the results of scientific research about care and treatment for people with mental illness in community settings. The book presents 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. Improving Mental Health Care adds to our knowledge of the challenge and the solutions and stands to make a significant contribution to global mental health.
- 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 [and others]
- 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 [and others]
- 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 [and others]
- 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 [and others]
- Work, mental health, and depression / Aart Schene [and others]
- Training mental health providers in better communication with their patients / Christa Zimmermann [and others]
- 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 [and others]
- Innovative epidemiological methods / Francesco Amaddeo [and others]
- 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 [and others]
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781118338001
- 1118338006
- 9781118337981
- 1118337980
- 9781118338018
- 1118338014
- OCLC:
- 851972210
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