Global Mental Health: Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations

Herausgeber: Escobar, Javier I.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Global Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Rutgers Global Health
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978810044
• ISBN-10: 1978810040
• Artikelnr.: 58622739

Autorenporträt

Javier I. Escobar, MD is Associate Dean for global health, and professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Inhaltsangabe

A brief review of global mental health: challenges, developments, and needs
/ Stanley Nkemjika, Javier I. Escobar, and Humberto Marin
Looking at cultural aspects of global mental health: The culturally infused
engagement model in Latin American and Asian populations / Miwa Yasui and
Kathleen J. Pottick
The abuse of psychiatry globally: A focus on a little-known historical
example from Francoist Spain / Ethan Pearlstein and Javier I. Escobar
Task-shifting strategies in Latin America: The key role of primary care
health agents in mental health policy and research in northern Argentina /
Maria Calvo, Gabriel de Erausquin, Mariana Figueredo Aguiar, Eduardo
Padilla, and Javier I. Escobar
Genetic research on chronic, severe mental disorders in the Paisa
population in Latin America: A review of past and current research / Carrie
E. Bearden, Carlos Lopez Jaramillo, and Javier I. Escobar
A brief rejoinder and future projections / Javier I. Escobar