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Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Developing Countries
NGO Innovations in India
First Edition
Edited by:
- Vikram Patel - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London and Sangath Centre, Goa
- R Thara - Schizophrenia Research Foundation, Chennai, India
Other Titles in:
Psychology (General) | Social Psychology (General) | Social Work & Social Policy (General)
Psychology (General) | Social Psychology (General) | Social Work & Social Policy (General)
May 2003 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
Mental disorders are among the commonest and most disabling health problems affecting developing societies today. This important volume describes the work of voluntary agencies in the field of mental health with the explicit objectives of documenting innovative achievements, examining the issues involved, and determining their success and viability in the Indian setting. It brings together 17 NGOs from various regions of the country who, between them, have dealt with a wide range of mental health and allied issues from severe mental disorders, autism, hyperactivity in children, and substance abuse, to trauma and violence, suicide prevention, and Alzheimer's disease in the elderly.
Mohan Isaac
Vikram Patel and R Thara
I. SEVERE MENTAL DISORDERS
R Thara
Lata M Jacob and Ellen B Shinde
S Kalyanasundaram
Joyce Siromoni
Sudipto Chatterjee, Achira Chatterjee and Sumit Jain
II. CHILD MENTAL HEALTH
Pramila Balasundaram
Nandita De Souza and Vikram Patel
P C Shastri and Tehmi D Shroff
Apurva Shah and Y Venugopal
III. WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH
Jasjit Purewal
Bhargavi V Davar
IV. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND COUNSELLING
Lakshmi Vijaykumar
Amresh Srivastava
V. SUBSTANCE ABUSE
V Thirumagal and Shanthi Ranganathan
Molly Charles and Gabriel Britto
VI. FAMILIES OF THE MENTALLY ILL
Nirmala Srinivasan
Ardsi K Jacob Roy
R Thara and Vikram Patel