BookSamuel O. Okpaku, editor.
Summary: Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life. Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented. Programs for training and education have expanded as a result. Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements. Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks. With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders25 percent of the worlds non-communicable disease burdenrising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes. This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances. Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.
Contents:
Grand Challenges and Innovations (Vice President for Programs Grand Challenges Canada)
The Role of World Bank the World Health Organization (World Bank)
The Role of Private Foundations and NGOs e.g. Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates Foundation, Carter Foundation
Reducing Stigma in Mental Health
Enhancing Human Capacity in low resource income countries the case of Liberia
Lessons from Research Innovations on HIV
Mental Health Policy (UK)
Mental Health System reform in Kosovo
Mental Health System reform in Brazil
Data Mining & Use to drive decision making and policy
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health
The use of mobile phones for frontline health care workers to manage depression
Telepsychiatry in Pudukkottai
Telehealth Mental Health
Total health screening for integrated care
Sustaining African Traditional Health, The role of Faith Healers, and Community Health workers: help detect mental illness
Integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services into Primary Care in the Middle East
Blended Care in Haiti
Spiritual Leaders and Adopted Therapy
The use of MPSS in immigration and refugee and immigrants
Addressing depression in the violence wracked mountains of Pakistan
Artificial and Technology, Tools for Mental Health, wellbeing, and resilience in refugees
Attempts to achieve parity and coverage in Chile
Developing Health Reform in China
A framework for action on Universal Health Coverage in Africa
Kenya integrated intervention model for dialogue and screening to promote childrens mental wellbeing (KID)
Pride (Premium for Adolescents)
Strong Minds
Oxygen Youth Health
Basic Needs, Mental Health, and Development Model
The friendship Bench
The Bariyan
The Nero Strategy
Community Based Mentoring & Enhanced Supervision (MESIT) to Address Severe Mental Disorders
Feasibility and effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for women affected by urban violence
A community based mental health intervention for mental health in Rwanda
Learning Clubs for womans health and infant development
Emerald
Prime (Programs focus on Intervention Research for Mental Health Affirm (Africa focus on Interventions Research for Mental Health)
Dealing with the challenges of Human Resources and Capacity Building in India. Carter Foundation programs in Liberia
National Capacity Building Programs in Ethiopia
Capacity building in Post Conflict Rwanda
Capacity building in Mexico
Improving prevention and treatment systems based on primary prevention for alcohol use problems in 2 Caribbean countriesGuyana and Belgium
A community oriented non specialist treatment for Alcohol Dependence
Supporting Addiction affected families effectively (SAFE)
War and displacement from conflict areas
Trauma Centers
Prime programs for South Africa, India, Ethiopia, and Uganda
Africa (Africa Focus on Intervention research for mental health)
Collaborative shared care to improving psychosis outcome
Feasibility study in preparation for rationalized controlled trial: Enhanced primary mental health care
Self Help Groups for Mental Health
Consumer Advocacy Movement
Dementia Home Care project
Rehabilitation Intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia
Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Religious and Spiritualties
3 Dimensions of Care for Diabetes (3DFD)
Improving access to care for people with epilepsy through domestic health visitors
Targeting family violence through domestic health visits
Epilogue.