Oxford textbook of public mental health / edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui, Samuel Y.S. Wong, Stephen E. Gilman.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental health.

Public health.

Health promotion.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 586 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Contents:

Section I Background and general principles

1 Principles of public health: Application to public mental health

2 Social inequalities and mental health

3 Economic costs of mental illness

4 The global burden of mental and substance use disorders: A review of methods, findings, and applications of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study

5 Models of causation of mental illness

6 Genetic influences across the age span.

7 Public mental health and anthropology: An ecological approach

8 Social factors and mental health

9 The epidemiological burden of major psychiatric disorders

10 Critical epidemiology

11 Occupational epidemiology

12 Public mental health and occupational health

13 Health equity

Section II Evidence

14 Social capital and mental health

15 Policy challenges: Well-being as a priority in public mental health

16 Unemployment and mental health

17 Housing and mental health

18 Social class and mental health: The impact of international recession and austerity.

19 The social determinants of mental health

20 Social determinants in low-income countries

21 Mental and physical health

22 Clinical outcome assessment in mental health

23 Environmental contaminants and mental health: The chemicalization of life as a matter of violation of the right to health and renewal of the 'disease industry'

Section III Special groups

24 Family, marriage, and mental health

25 Prisoners and mental health

26 LGBTI and mental health

27 Sexual minority adolescents and mental health

28 Children and adolescents.

29 Recognizing mental health problems in the ageing community

30 Mental health in intellectual disability

31 Physical and psychiatric co-morbidity

32 Globalization, migration, and mental health: A conceptual model for health research

33 Treatment of mental health problems in refugees and asylum seekers

34 Lifestyle

35 Prevention approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm

36 Prevention of drug addiction

37 Implications of the global mental health and the HIV syndemic on HIV prevention and care

38 Suicide and the prevention of suicidal behaviours.

39 Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: Risk and protective factors and universal evidence-based suicide preventive programmes

Section IV Interventions: types and places

40 Parenting skills and promotion of mental health over the lifespan

41 Pregnancy: The earliest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental disorders

42 Promoting mental health and well-being: What can schools do?

43 Early intervention in psychiatry

44 Anti-stigma interventions: Theory and evidence

45 Managing stress.

46. Psychological intervention as a measure for promoting public mental health: Is it a white elephant?

47. Diet, environment, and mental health

48. Mental health and its social determinants: Some experiences of the Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA) in India

49. Interpersonal violence

50. Poverty and interpersonal violence

51. NGOs and mental health

52. Public health and terrorism

53. Resilience and wellbeing

54. Resilience and the role of spirituality

55. Innovations in the area of social media

56. Telemental health: A public mental health perspective

57. Policy and public mental health in low and middle income countries

58. Managing research and evaluation for public mental health

59. Working with traditional healers to reduce mental health treatment gap in low and middle income countries

Section 5: Conclusions

60. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0198792999

9780198792994

OCLC:

1023102542