Publication Date
2003
266 p|ill
This is a practical manual about mental health care, aimed at community health workers, primary care nurses, social workers and primary care doctors. It describes more than 30 clinical problems associated with mental illness, using a problem-solving approach to guide the reader through their assessment and management. It addresses the lack of understanding of mental health among many health workers
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Keywords
Cross-cutting; advocacy; Development/ Humanitarian; Disability and social diversity; children with disabilities; elderly; homeless/ street persons; persons living with HIV/aids; persons with disabilities; refugees; women with disabilities; youth; Global picture; disability; Health; issues: substances/ abuse; mental health; risk factors; systems: health workforce; systems: leadership and governance; systems: medical products vaccines and technologies; treatment and prevention; Human rights; freedom from exploitation violence and abuse; Politics government and economics; judicial system; Rehabilitation; therapeutic (treatment); trauma
