Mental Health In East Asia

Author : Anson Au
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032312415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health in East Asia written by Anson Au and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering monograph examines how culture informs popular understandings and experiences of mental health in East Asia, as well as providing resolutions for the future. Questions about mental health problems have gained new urgency as their consequences are growing more visible in East Asia. Yet, our understanding, funding, and evidence has not kept pace. Anson Au explores the social and psychological concepts, and network structures that make up the blueprint of East Asian cultures and untangles their myriad of influences on how people think, feel, and trust with respect to mental health experiences. Chapters explore themes such as cultural beliefs about mental health, the role of social support and social media, and mental health stigma.Drawing on the latest quantitative evidence, network science, and novel qualitative data, this book paints a portrait of mental health in the region and articulates culturally sensitive policies and practices tailored for East Asian cultures that improve mental health experiences.

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241548924
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MhGAP Humanitarian Intervention Guide (mhGAP-HIG) written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mhGAP Intervention Guide (IG) is a clinical guide on mental neurological and substance use disorders for general health care workers who work in non-specialized health care settings particularly in low- and middle-income countries. These health care workers include general physicians family physicians nurses and clinical officers. The mhGAP programme provides a range of tools to support the work of health care providers as well as health policy makers and planners The proposed guide is an adaptation of the mhGAP Intervention Guide to be used in humanitarian settings. These settings include a broad range of acute and chronic emergency situations arising from armed conflicts natural disasters and industrial disasters and may include mass displacement of populations (eg refugees and/or internally displaced people).

Author : Claudia Lang
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048550130
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Movement for Global Mental Health written by Claudia Lang and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.

Author : Harry Minas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489979999
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific written by Harry Minas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This far-reaching volume analyzes the social, cultural, political, and economic factors contributing to mental health issues and shaping treatment options in the Asian and Pacific world. Multiple lenses examine complex experiences and needs in this vast region, identifying not only cultural issues at the individual and collective levels, but also the impacts of colonial history, effects of war and disasters, and the current climate of globalization on mental illness and its care. These concerns are located in the larger context of physical health and its determinants, worldwide goals such as reducing global poverty, and the evolving mental health response to meet rising challenges affecting the diverse populations of the region. Chapters focus on countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia plus Oceania and Australia, describing: · National history of psychiatry and its acceptance. · Present-day mental health practice and services. · Mental/physical health impact of recent social change. · Disparities in accessibility, service delivery, and quality of care. · Collaborations with indigenous and community approaches to healing. · Current mental health resources, the state of policy, and areas for intervention. A welcome addition to the global health literature, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific brings historical depth and present-day insight to practitioners providing services in this diverse area of the world as well as researchers and policymakers studying the region.

Author : Harry Minas
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030651614
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora: Historical and Cultural Perspectives written by Harry Minas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the previous volume, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, which was co-edited with Milton Lewis, this book explores historical and contemporary developments in mental health in China and Chinese immigrant populations. It presents the development of mental health policies and services from the 19th Century until the present time, offering a clear view of the antecedents of today’s policies and practice. Chapters focus on traditional Chinese conceptions of mental illness, the development of the Chinese mental health system through the massive political, social, cultural and economic transformations in China from the late 19th Century to the present, and the mental health of Chinese immigrants in several countries with large Chinese populations. China’s international political and economic influence and its capabilities in mental health science and innovation have grown rapidly in recent decades. So has China’s engagement in international institutions, and in global economic and health development activities. Chinese immigrant communities are to be found in almost all countries all around the world. Readers of this book will gain an understanding of how historical, cultural, economic, social, and political contexts have influenced the development of mental health law, policies and services in China and how these contexts in migrant receiving countries shape the mental health of Chinese immigrants.

Author : Anson Au
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000839648
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health in East Asia written by Anson Au and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering monograph examines how culture informs popular understandings and experiences of mental health in East Asia, as well as providing resolutions for the future. Questions about mental health problems have gained new urgency as their consequences are growing more visible in East Asia. Yet, our understanding, funding, and evidence has not kept pace. Anson Au explores the social and psychological concepts, and network structures that make up the blueprint of East Asian cultures and untangles their myriad of influences on how people think, feel, and trust with respect to mental health experiences. Chapters explore themes such as cultural beliefs about mental health, the role of social support and social media, and mental health stigma. Drawing on the latest quantitative evidence, network science, and novel qualitative data, this book paints a portrait of mental health in the region and articulates culturally sensitive policies and practices tailored for East Asian cultures that improve mental health experiences.

Author : 1966 Conference on Mental Health Research in Asia, the Pacific, East-West Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598215918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health Research in Asia and the Pacific written by 1966 Conference on Mental Health Research in Asia, the Pacific, East-West Center and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tsung-yi Lin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Mental Health Research in Asia and the Pacific written by Tsung-yi Lin and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
ISBN 13 : 9241514019
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Health Atlas 2017 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects together data compiled from 177 World Health Organization Member States/Countries on mental health care. Coverage includes policies, plans and laws for mental health, human and financial resources available, what types of facilities providing care, and mental health programmes for prevention and promotion.