Global Mental Health: Latin America and Spanish-Speaking Populations

Herausgeber: Escobar, Javier I.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, highlighting pros and cons of this approach and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders that is taking place in Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Rutgers Global Health
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780813595917
• ISBN-10: 0813595916
• Artikelnr.: 57016276

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