Global Mental Health (eBook, ePUB)

Anthropological Perspectives
Redaktion: Kohrt, Brandon A; Mendenhall, Emily

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses engaging narratives to illustrate that mental illnesses are not only problems individuals face but problems that need to be understood and treated globally at the social and cultural levels.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 389
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315428031
• Artikelnr.: 45434305

Autorenporträt

Brandon A Kohrt

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Mental Health
1. Historical Background: Medical Anthropology and Global Mental Health
2. Anthropological Methods in Global Mental Health Research
PART I: SOCIAL AND STRUCTURAL ORIGINS OFMENTAL ILLNESS IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
3. Water
Worry
and Doña Paloma: Why Water Security is Fundamental to Global Mental Health
4. Life in Transit: Mental Health
Temporality
and Urban Displacement for Iraqi Refugees
5. Reconnecting Hope: Khat Consumption
Time
and Mental Well-Being among Unemployed Young Men in Jimma
Ethiopia
6. The Greater Good: Surviving Sexual Violence for Schooling
7. Grandmothers
Children
and Intergenerational Distress in Nicaraguan Transnational Families
8. Addiction in Colombia: Local Lives
Broader Lessons
PART II: TREATMENT APPROACHES AND ACCESS TO CARE IN LOW- AND HIGH-RESOURCE SETTINGS
9. Life "Under the Wire": Perceived Discrimination and Mental Health of Haitian Migrants in the Dominican Republic
10. Festive Fighting and Forgiving: Ritual and Resilience among Indigenous Indian "Conservation Refugees"
11. Who Belongs in a Psychiatric Hospital? Post-Socialist Romania in the Age of Globalizing Psychiatry
12. The "Cost" of Health Care: Poverty
Depression
and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrants in the United States
13. The Few
the Proud: Women Combat Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the United States
14. Cultural Competence and Its Discontents: Reflections on a Mandatory Course for Psychiatry Residents
PART III: TASK-SHARING AND ALTERNATIVE CAREMODELS
15. People
Praxis
and Power in Global Mental Health: Anthropology and the Experience Gap
16. "Thinking Too Much" in the Central Plateau: An Apprenticeship Approach to Treating Local Distress in Haiti
17. Task-Shifting in Global Health: Mental Health Implications for Community Health Workers and Volunteers
18. "We Can't Find This Spirit of Help": Mental Health
Social Issues
and Community Home-Based Care Providers in Central Mozambique
19. Shared Humanity among Nonspecialist Peer Care Providers for Persons Living with Psychosis: Implications for Global Mental Health
CONCLUSION: A Road Map for Anthropology and Global Mental Health
INDEX
CONTRIBUTORS