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Mental health conditions and services in selected African countries : implications for social work and human services professions / Marie-Antoinette Sossou and Tirelo Modie-Moroka, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mental illnesses and treatmentsPublisher: New York : Nova Biomedical, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781634852920
  • 1634852923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mental health conditions and services in selected African countriesDDC classification:
  • 362.196/890096 23
LOC classification:
  • RA790.7.A34
NLM classification:
  • WM 30 HA1
Online resources:
Contents:
Botswana -- ch. 1 A Historical Evolution of Mental Health Services in Botswana: Past and Present / Tirelo Modie-Moroka -- ch. 2 Mental Health Care, HIV, and AIDs in Botswana: Challenges and Opportunities / Refilwe P. Sinkamba -- Ghana -- ch. 3 Mental Health Care and Service in Ghana / Mercy M. Ackumey -- Kenya -- ch. 4 How Mental Health Is Understood in Africa: The Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Kenya / Japheth Jaoko -- ch. 5 Delivery of Mental Health Services in Kenya / Elizabeth Muriu -- Nigeria -- ch. 6 Mental Health in Nigeria: Perspectives and Health Care Interventions among the Yorubas / Isaiah Mobalaji Ojedokun -- Rwanda
Ch. 7 The 1994 Genocide in Rwanda: The Effects on Children and Psycho-Social Intervention / Vincent Sezibera -- ch. 8 Mental Health Care in Hospitals in Rwanda / Pierre Philippot -- South Africa -- ch. 9 Mental Health Services in South Africa / Willem J.H. Roestenburg, Charlene Carbonatto, Nontembeko J. Bila -- Uganda -- ch. 10 Towards Understanding the Dilemmas in the Prevention of Mental Illness in Africa: Lessons from Uganda / James Mugisha -- Zambia -- ch. 11 How Mental Health Is Understood in Africa: The Case of Zambia / Samson Chama.
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Botswana -- ch. 1 A Historical Evolution of Mental Health Services in Botswana: Past and Present / Tirelo Modie-Moroka -- ch. 2 Mental Health Care, HIV, and AIDs in Botswana: Challenges and Opportunities / Refilwe P. Sinkamba -- Ghana -- ch. 3 Mental Health Care and Service in Ghana / Mercy M. Ackumey -- Kenya -- ch. 4 How Mental Health Is Understood in Africa: The Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Kenya / Japheth Jaoko -- ch. 5 Delivery of Mental Health Services in Kenya / Elizabeth Muriu -- Nigeria -- ch. 6 Mental Health in Nigeria: Perspectives and Health Care Interventions among the Yorubas / Isaiah Mobalaji Ojedokun -- Rwanda

Ch. 7 The 1994 Genocide in Rwanda: The Effects on Children and Psycho-Social Intervention / Vincent Sezibera -- ch. 8 Mental Health Care in Hospitals in Rwanda / Pierre Philippot -- South Africa -- ch. 9 Mental Health Services in South Africa / Willem J.H. Roestenburg, Charlene Carbonatto, Nontembeko J. Bila -- Uganda -- ch. 10 Towards Understanding the Dilemmas in the Prevention of Mental Illness in Africa: Lessons from Uganda / James Mugisha -- Zambia -- ch. 11 How Mental Health Is Understood in Africa: The Case of Zambia / Samson Chama.

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