The culture of mental illness and psychiatric practice in Africa / / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Allan G. Hill, and Arthur Kleinman.

• TeilnehmendeR: Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku,; Hill, Allan G.,; Kleinman, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362 pages)

Table of Contents

• A historical overview of psychiatry in Africa / Emmanuel Akyeampong
• Common mental disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa : the triad of depression, anxiety, and somatization / Vikram Patel and Dan J. Stein
• Schizophrenia and psychosis in West Africa / Ursula M. Read, Victor C. K. Doku, and Ama de-Graft Aikins
• Mental illness and destitution in Ghana : a social-psychological perspective / Ama de-Graft Aikins
• Children and adolescent mental health in South Africa / Alan Flisher, Andrew Dawes, Zuhayr Kafaar, Crick Lund, Katherine Sorsdahl, Bronwyn Myers, Rita Thom, and Soraya Seedat
• Some aspects of mental illness in French-speaking West Africa / Rene Collignon
• Women's self-reported mental health in Accra, Ghana / Allan G. Hill and Victoria de Menil
• One thing leads to another : sex, AIDS, and mental health reform in South Africa / Pamela Y. Collins
• Health care professionals' mental health and well-being in the era of HIV/AIDS : perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa / Giuseppe Raviola
• The role of traditional healers in mental health care in Africa / Elialilia Okello and Seggane Musisi
• Improving access to psychiatric medicines in Africa / Shoba Raja, Sarah Kippen Wood, and Michael R. Reich
• Child soldiers and community reconciliation in postwar Sierra Leone : African psychiatry in the twenty-first century / William P. Murphy
• Using mixed methods to plan and evaluate mental health programs for war-affected children in Sub-Saharan Africa / Theresa Betancourt.