Description
Book SynopsisGlobal Mental Health provides an outline of the field of mental health with a particular focus on Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world. The book details evidence-based approaches being implemented globally and presents ongoing state of the art research on major mental disorders taking place in Latin America.
Trade Review“This global health collection is wide-ranging topically and geographically. New works from South America are a welcome counterbalance to available sources. Remarkably fresh sourcebook of broad interdisciplinary interest.”
-- Janis H. Jenkins * Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Director, Center for Global Mental Health, UCSD *
This innovative book reviews what is known while telling the story of efforts to fill gaps in services and science in global mental health in Latin America and Spanish-speaking groups. While reviewing epidemiology and services research, they describe recent issues including even political abuses, and new studies highlighting growth of this field. -- Kenneth Wells * Director of UCLA Semel Institute Center for Health Services and Society *
Table of ContentsA brief review of global mental health: challenges, developments, and needs / Stanley Nkemjika, Javier I. Escobar, and Humberto Marin
Looking at cultural aspects of global mental health: The culturally infused engagement model in Latin American and Asian populations / Miwa Yasui and Kathleen J. Pottick
The abuse of psychiatry globally: A focus on a little-known historical example from Francoist Spain / Ethan Pearlstein and Javier I. Escobar
Task-shifting strategies in Latin America: The key role of primary care health agents in mental health policy and research in northern Argentina / Maria Calvo, Gabriel de Erausquin, Mariana Figueredo Aguiar, Eduardo Padilla, and Javier I. Escobar
Genetic research on chronic, severe mental disorders in the Paisa population in Latin America: A review of past and current research / Carrie E. Bearden, Carlos Lopez Jaramillo, and Javier I. Escobar
A brief rejoinder and future projections / Javier I. Escobar
