Main description:

Over the course of the last decade, political and mental entities at large have embraced global mental health: the idea that psychiatric health is vital to improved quality of life. Physicians globally have implemented guidelines recommended by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in 2007, thereby breaking down barriers to care and improving quality of life in areas where these practices have been implemented. Programs for training and education have expanded as a result. Clinicians benefit more from both local resources in some regions as well as in international collaboration and technological advancements.

Even amidst all of these positive outcomes, clinicians still face some stumbling blocks. With worldwide statistics estimating that 450 million people struggle with mental, neuropsychiatric, and neurological disorders-25 percent of the world's non-communicable disease burden-rising to these challenges prove to be no small feat, even in wealthy Western nations.

Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovative, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care.

This book seeks to boldly rectify this situation by identifying innovative models of service delivery, training, education, research funding, and payment systems that have proven to be exemplary in implementation and scalability or have potential for scalability. Chapters describe specific barriers and challenges, illuminating effective strategies for improved outcomes.

This text is the first peer-reviewed resource to gather prestigious physicians in global mental health from around the world and disseminate their expertise in the medical community at large in a format that is updateable, making it a truly cutting-edge resource in a world constantly changed by medical, scientific, and technological advances.

Innovations in Global Mental Health is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.

Contents:

Section I: Challenges and Opportunities in Global Mental Health 1. Grand Challenges and Innovations (Vice President for Programs Grand Challenges Canada).

2. The Role of World Bank the World Health Organization

3. The Role of Private Foundations and NGO's e.g. Wellcome Trust, Bill Gates Foundation, Carter Foundation

Section II:

4. Reducing Stigma in Mental Health

5. Enhancing Human Capacity in low resource income countries the case of Liberia

6. Lessons from Research Innovations on HIV

Section III: Advocacy, Policy, and Legislation

7. Mental Health Policy (UK)

8. Mental Health System reform in Kosovo

9. Mental Health System reform in Brazil

Section IV: The Role of Technology

10. Data Mining & Use to drive decision making and policy

11. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health

12. The use of mobile phones for frontline health care workers to manage depression

13. Telepsychiatry in Pudukkottai (Step)

14. Telehealth Mental Health

Section V: Innovations in Treatment and Care

15. Total health screening for integrated care

16. Sustaining African Traditional Health, The role of Faith Healers, and Community Health workers: help detect mental illness

17. Integration of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Services into Primary Care in the Middle East

18. Blended Care in Haiti

19. Spiritual Leaders and ---Adopted Therapy

Section VI: Innovations in Immigration and Refugee Services

20. The use of MPSS in immigration and refugee and immigrants

21. Addressing depression in the violence wracked mountains of Pakistan

22. Artificial and Technology, Tools for Mental Health, wellbeing, and resilience in refugees

Section VII: Developing Nations

23. Attempts to achieve parity and coverage in Chile

24. Developing Health Reform in China

25. A framework for action on Universal Health Coverage in Africa

Section VII: Youths in Developing Nations

26. Kenya integrated intervention model for dialogue and screening to promote children's mental wellbeing (KID)

27. Pride (Premium for Adolescents)

28. Strong Minds

29. Oxygen Youth Health

Section IX: Community Mental Health Programs

30. Basic Needs, Mental Health, and Development Model

31. The friendship Bench

32. The Bariyan

33. The Nero Strategy

34. Community Based Mentoring & Enhanced Supervision (MESIT) to Address Severe Mental Disorders

Section X: Innovations in Gender & Equality

35. Feasibility and effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT) for women affected by urban violence. (Kenya)

36. A community based mental health intervention for mental health in Rwanda

37. Learning Clubs for woman's health and infant development

Section XI: Innovations in research and generating evidence based approaches

38. Emerald (The emerging mental health systems in LMIC)

39. Prime (Programs focus on Intervention Research for Mental Health

40. Affirm (Africa focus on Interventions Research for Mental Health)

Section XII: Human Resources and Capacity Building

41. Dealing with the challenges of Human Resources and Capacity Building in India

42. Carter Foundation programs in Liberia

43. National Capacity Building Programs in Ethiopia

44. Capacity building in Post Conflict Rwanda

45. Capacity building in Mexico

Section XIII: Innovations in Substance Abuse

46. Improving prevention and treatment systems based on primary prevention for alcohol use problems in 2 Caribbean countries-Guyana and Belgium.

47. A community oriented non specialist treatment for Alcohol Dependence

48. Supporting Addiction affected families effectively (SAFE)

Section XIV:

49. War and displacement from conflict areas

50. Trauma Centers

Section XV: Research and Monitoring the Progress of Countries

51. Prime programs for South Africa, India, Ethiopia, and Uganda

52. Africa (Africa Focus on Intervention research for mental health)

53. Collaborative shared care to improving psychosis outcome

54. Feasibility study in preparation for rationalized controlled trial: Enhanced primary mental health care

Section XVI: Services for special populations-Consensus service uses the Elderly and Disabled

55. Self Help Groups for Mental Health

56. II) Consumer Advocacy Movement

57. Dementia Home Care project

58. Rehabilitation Intervention for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia

Section XVII: Miscellaneous

59. Advances in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Religious and Spiritualties

60. 3 Dimensions of Care for Diabetes (3DFD)

61. Improving access to care for people with epilepsy through domestic health visitors

Targeting family violence through domestic health visits