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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.
| Foreword | Mohan Isaac |
| Introduction: The Role of NGOs in Mental Health Care | Vikram Patel and R Thara |
I. SEVERE MENTAL DISORDERS
| Meeting the Challenges of Chronic Mental Illness-The `SCARF' Experience | R Thara |
| The Medico-Pastoral Association: Need-Based Initiatives by Volunteers in Mental Health Care | Lata M Jacob and Ellen B Shinde |
| Rehabilitation Against the Odds: The RFS Experience | S Kalyanasundaram |
| Paripurnata-A Hope for Wholeness | Joyce Siromoni |
| Developing Community-Based Services for Serious Mental Illness: A Rural Setting | Sudipto Chatterjee, Achira Chatterjee and Sumit Jain |
II. CHILD MENTAL HEALTH
| Kaizen at the Grass Roots: The Samadhan Experience | Pramila Balasundaram |
| Sangath-Families as Partners | Nandita De Souza and Vikram Patel |
| The Research Society for the Care, Treatment and Training of Children in Need of Special Care | P C Shastri and Tehmi D Shroff |
| Antarnad- A Dream in the Making | Apurva Shah and Y Venugopal |
III. WOMEN'S MENTAL HEALTH
| Gender, Violence, Sexuality and Health: Redefining the Matrix | Jasjit Purewal |
| Centring `Women' in Mental Health | Bhargavi V Davar |
IV. SUICIDE PREVENTION AND COUNSELLING
| Sneha-Working with Suicide | Lakshmi Vijaykumar |
| `Suicidal Behaviour- A Window to Mental Health': The Prerana Initiative | Amresh Srivastava |
V. SUBSTANCE ABUSE
| Meeting Challenges in the Field of Addiction | V Thirumagal and Shanthi Ranganathan |
| Toward A Humane Drug Policy and Programmes | Molly Charles and Gabriel Britto |
VI. FAMILIES OF THE MENTALLY ILL
| The Story of AMEND-The Association for the Mentally Disabled | Nirmala Srinivasan |
| A Beacon of Hope for Victims of Dementia | Ardsi K Jacob Roy |
| NGOs in Mental Health: Meeting the Need? | R Thara and Vikram Patel |
| Index |