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Promoting Mental Health in Scarce-Resource Contexts: Emerging Evidence and Practice
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Paperback. Mental health promotion strives to improve mental health through developing ways of adjusting and coping with challenges. This book provides a relevant conceptual and theoretical base for the application of health promotion in scarce resource contexts. It is suitable for mental health and general public health students and practitioners. Editor(s): Petersen, Inge; Bhana, Arvin; Flisher, Alan J.; Swartz, Leslie; Richter, Linda. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 410.
Mental health promotion strives to improve mental health through developing ways of adjusting and coping with challenges. These strategies are at the heart of human development and can strengthen social and economic outcomes, and are especially important in low to middle income countries where hardship is common, and where the emphasis has been solely on care and treatment of people with mental illness. The book provides a relevant conceptual and theoretical base for the application of health promotion in scarce resource contexts. It includes examples of evidence-based programmes across the lifespan applicable in low resource settings. Written by experts in ... Read more
Mental health promotion strives to improve mental health through developing ways of adjusting and coping with challenges. These strategies are at the heart of human development and can strengthen social and economic outcomes, and are especially important in low to middle income countries where hardship is common, and where the emphasis has been solely on care and treatment of people with mental illness. The book provides a relevant conceptual and theoretical base for the application of health promotion in scarce resource contexts. It includes examples of evidence-based programmes across the lifespan applicable in low resource settings. Written by experts in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Human Sciences Research Council
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796923035
SKU
V9780796923035
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99-3
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Inge Petersen, PhD: Professor of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Arvin Bhana, PhD: Deputy Executive Director of the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Alan J. Flisher, FCPsych (SA), PhD: Sue Streungmann Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Head of the Division of ... Read more
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