Public mental health
By: edited by William W. Eaton and the faculty, students, and fellows of the Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Contributors: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dept. of Mental Health
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
ISBN-13: 9780195390445
Subjects: Mental Disorders; Public Health Practice; Mental Health Services
Description: A comprehensive introduction to public health approaches to mental and behavioral disorders--and to the overall promotion of mental health.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The burden of mental disorders / William W. Eaton ... [et al.]; title: The perspectives of psychiatry : the public health approach / Paul McHugh; title: Global mental health issues : culture and psychopathology / Judith K. Bass ... [et al.]; title: Assessment of distress, disorder, impairment, and need in the population / William W. Eaton ... [et al.]; title: An introduction to quantitative methods especially relevant for public mental health / Elizabeth A. Stuart ... [et al.]; title: The population dynamics of mental disorders / William W. Eaton ... [et al.]; title: The relationship of adult mental disorders to race, socioeconomic status, marital status, and urbanicity of residence / Silvia S. Martins ... [et al.]; title: Genes as a source of risk for mental disorders / Peter P. Zandi, Brion Maher; title: Mental disorders across the life span and the role of executive function networks / Michelle C. Carlson, Dana Eldreth, Yi-Fang Chuang; title: Models of stress and adapting to risk : a life-course, developmental perspective / Catherine P. Bradshaw ... [et al.]; title: Adapting to acute crisis / Carla L. Storr ... [et al.]; title: Mental health and the law / Deborah Agus; title: American mental health services : perspective through care patterns for 100 adults, with aggregate facility, service and cost estimates / Ronald W. Manderscheid ... [et al.]; title: Community and public mental health services in the U.S. : history and programs / Anita Everett, Su Yeon Lee; title: Pathways to care : need, attitudes, barriers / Ramin Mojtabai, William W. Eaton, Pallab K. Maulik; title: Mental health systems around the world / Shekhar Saxena ... [et al.]; title: The logic and practice of the prevention of mental disorders / Tamar Mendelson ... [et al.]; title: Progress made, but much more to be done / Phillip Leaf ... [et al.].