Bøger i Mental Health and Illness Worldwide serien

This book looks into the mental health challenges in the rural world, the socio economic and cultural factors bearing on them and the best clinical practices to deal with them. It elaborates on the pressures of globalization and modernization that rural people find themselves in which brings about ever increasing stressful conditions.

This book unravels the mental health challenges of the migrants and the socio economic and cultural conditions that bear on the mental well being.

This book presents state of the art knowledge aimed at understanding the clinical and socio-cultural factors that affect mental health of children and adolescents.

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities. It presents the epidemiology of mental disorders in cities, cultural issues of urban mental health care, and community care in large cities and urban slums. Finally, it looks at the increasing challenges of mental disorders in rapidly growing cities.

This book discusses psychiatric disorders among women in a manner that is relevant to clinical practice and keep cultural and social realities in perspective.

Longevity is a great gift of medical sciences and modern health care and since the benefit of longevity comes with specific mental health issues of the elderly, this book responds to the heightened need to understand and address the mental health challenges of the elderly.