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Changing Trends in Mental Health Care and Research in Ghana /
This Reader is about the changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana. The book includes a brief history of the department and Mental Health Care in Ghana through the eyes of professionals who have lived this history. There is also a revised situation analysis of mental health service...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Legon-Accra, Ghana :
for the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers,
2014.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Section A: Mental healthcare in Ghana. Introduction ; Overview of mental healthcare in Ghana ; History of the department of psychiatry ; An updated situation analysis of mental health services and legislation in Ghana: challenges for transformation
- Section B: Conceptualization of mental illness. The Ghanaian non-medical conceptualization of mood disorders ; Religion and psychotherapy ; The state of autism in Ghana: a focus on cultural understanding and challenges in the Ghanaian setting ; Substance use disorders in Ghana ; Schizophrenia in primary care
- Section C: Mental health practice in a teaching hospital setting. Liaison psychiatry in Korle Bu teaching hospital ; Neuropsychological functioning of adult sickle cell disease patients in Ghana ; Psychological wellbeing and quality of life among chronic kidney disease patients in Ghana ; Irritable bowel syndrome and related functional bowel disorders in an urban gastroenterology practice ; Group therapy for mothers of unwell neonatal infants ; Play therapy: a pilot project supporting children undergoing cancer treatment at the Korle Bu teaching hospital ; Breaking bad news
- Section D: Research in psychiatry and clinical biology. A qualitative study of stresses faced by Ghanaian medical students ; Is the concept of learning disabilities applicable for Ghana? ; Dilemmas of healthcare professionals in Ghana ; Experience of strengthening the mental health information system in Ghana's three psychiatric hospitals ; The way forward for mental health in the 21st century in Ghana.