Your A-Z On Mental Health

by David Musyimi Ndetei

Overview

The book covers a wide range of topics. It includes mental health disorders and how they are generally recognized and managed, covering the whole spectrum of life. It also includes description of subjects of interest in relation to mental disorders. Besides describing those common situations, the book also addresses various approaches to the management of various mental health disorders and situations, by mental health workers but most importantly what they can do for themselves in their homes and in mitigations against the costs and stigma of mental illness. It is hoped this book will serve to demystify mental disorders, and in the process significantly destigmatize people with mental disorders and in the process allow them together with their relatives, to come forward and demand for equal treatment, services and rights from the health professionals, policy makers, and medical insurers. 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940154928677
Publisher:	Acrodile Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	09/16/2017
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David M. Ndetei, MBChB(Nairobi), DPM(London), M.R.C. Psych. FRC. Psych(UK), M.D(Nairobi), DSc(Nairobi), Certificate in Psychotherapy(London).  He is Professor of Psychiatry at the premier University of Nairobi and the Founding Director of Africa Mental Health Foundation, a leader in this Region of Africa in Mental Health Research and a Mental Health Resources Centre. His dreams are Mental Health for All that is Affordable, Appropriate, Available and Accessible, and his mother University of Nairobi continued leadership in the region, and indeed a World class University that will soon be among the best 100 in the World.  These can only be achieved through innovative and contextualized research to make a difference in the lives of the ordinary citizens of this part of the World. It was in this context that his Doctor of Science Thesis was entitled: Studies And Works In Mental Health To Inform Practice And Policy In The African Social Cultural Context.