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Mental Health and Illness in the Rural World

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  • © 2020

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Editors:
  1. Santosh Chaturvedi

    1. N Inst. of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

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  • Presents research that combines biological, psychological and sociological perspectives
  • Covers areas that are relevant to clinicians and students from both developed and LAMI countries
  • Includes recent and contemporary topics that are not often dealt with in text books of psychiatry

Part of the book series: Mental Health and Illness Worldwide (MHIW)

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Table of contents (22 entries)

  1. Advantages and Disadvantages in the Management of Mental Illnesses in Rural Areas

    • Paola Tejada

  2. Alcoholism, Substance Use, and Other Addictive Disorders

    • Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha, Arun Kandasamy

  3. Challenges of Research in Rural Mental Health in Sri Lanka

    • Athula Sumathipala, Dhanuja Mahesh, Hiranya Wijesundara

  4. Common Mental Disorders and Folk Mental Illnesses

    • Abhilash Balakrishnan, Hargun Ahluwalia, Geetha Desai

  5. Culture and Mental Health Care in Asia-Pacific Rural Communities

    • Ee Heok Kua

  6. Development of Rural Mental Health in Bangladesh

    • Muhammad Zillur Rahman Khan

  7. Future of Rural Living and Impact on Mental Health

    • Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio

  8. Intellectual Disability in Rural Backgrounds: Challenges and Solutions

    • Mahesh M. Odiyoor, Sujeet Jaydeokar

  9. Mental Health Aspects of Rural Living

    • Matthew Kelly, Antonio Ventriglio, Dinesh Bhugra

  10. Mental Health Literacy in Rural India

    • Meena Kolar Sridara Murthy, Madhuporna Dasgupta, Santosh K. Chaturvedi

  11. Mental Health of Rural Women

    • Prabha S. Chandra, Diana Ross, Preeti Pansari Agarwal

  12. Mental Health Professionals in Rural Areas

    • Prabha S. Chandra

  13. Methodological Issues in Epidemiological Studies on Mental Health in Rural Populations

    • Vimal Kumar Sharma, Shiv Dutt Gupta, Nikhil Sharma, Nutan Jain

  14. Organization of Mental Health Services in Rural Areas

    • Vimal Kumar Sharma

  15. Psychopharmacology in Rural Settings

    • Samir Kumar Praharaj, Chittaranjan Andrade

  16. Rehabilitation for Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

    • Jagadisha Thirthalli, Thanapal Sivakumar, Chethan Basavarajappa

  17. Rural Living and Mental Health: Concepts and Contexts

    • Eesha Sharma, Santosh K. Chaturvedi

  18. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders in Rural Settings

    • Abhinav Nahar, Shiva Shankar Reddy, Geetha Desai

  19. Stigma in Rural Settings

    • Vishal Bhavsar, Dinesh Bhugra

  20. Stress and Rural Mental Health

    • Bettahalasoor Somashekar, P. S. Reddy, Balaji Wuntakal
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This book looks into the mental health challenges in the rural world, the socio economic and cultural factors bearing on them and the best clinical practices to deal with them. It elaborates on the pressures of globalization and modernization that rural people find themselves in which brings about ever increasing stressful conditions. It also covers the lack of awareness about mental health issues and services which lead to further problems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • N Inst. of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

    Santosh Chaturvedi

About the editor

Santosh Chaturvedi is psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India. He has to his credit more than 400 scientific publications.

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