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This volume explores the essential features of designing and providing mental health services for school children in India despite lack of resources and trained personnel. The author details intervention strategies which deal with specific problems such as emotional disorders, hyperkinetic conduct disorder and learning difficulties. She also describes an initiative to provide a mental health programme in a rural school. A concluding chapter outlines the appicability of work done in India to other developing countries in the context of WHO guidelines.
Psychiatrist R.L. Kapur gets curious about a possible connection between psychology and asceticism. Intrigued by Indian spiritual traditions and mindful of the number of people in India who visit ascetics to treat psychological problems like schizophrenia, Kapur takes a year's sabbatical to learn yoga from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, keeping a meticulous diary of the effects of the exercise. Armed with the experience he climbs the rocky slopes of the Himalayas to meet and interview ascetics from different sects of Hinduism. He comes across a varied group—philosophers, intellectuals, artists, visionaries; some believed they were destined to become sadhus, others were prompted by circumstances.
Kapur (clinical psychology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore) seeks to sensitize people who work with children in India to various aspects of mental health. His focus is the internal or external distress that warp psychosocial development rather than mental disability. He describes and evaluates assessment and therapeutic techniques, discusses several specific disorders, and surveys the social environment in which Indian children grow up. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
This book examines childcare in ancient Indian health systems from the perspective of developmental psychology. The author extensively studies ancient texts and charts from Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Tibetan medicines and analyses how gleanings from these systems can be useful in creating preferred practices for modern childcare systems. Though the four systems originated in different geographical regions, they share many common core constructs of a holistic approach consisting of mind-body unity. The core of psychological healing in these systems rests on bringing about harmony and balance of disturbed functions through diet, daily regimen and drugs. However, despite commonalities, underst...
This volume provides multifaceted and multidisciplinary insights into the growing field of health studies. Providing inputs from the behavioural sciences as well as social sciences, it discusses the issues of recovery from illness, and growth and wellbeing, as situated in social and eco-cultural contexts, and addresses the modalities of health-related interventions in diverse contexts. The specific themes taken up by the contributors are post-trauma growth, resilience, gender and health, distress and wellness, indigenous healing, counselling and psychotherapy, disability-related interventions, self-healing, as well as health issues of special groups like adolescents and the elderly, cancer p...
The Encyclopaedia of Animal Diseases has been carefully compiled and edited to meet the long felt needs of increasingly large number of those who have to deal with the different aspects of human diseases in colleges, universities and research institutes. It provides a stimulating and important new view of interaction between animals and pathogens causing diseases. The objective is to introduce to students the essential principles for understanding various aspects of diseases. Most of diseases constitute the largest part of human pathology and are the primary cause of death. Hence, special importance is given to the study of such diseases. The book is intended to acquaint students of various fields involved directly or indirectly with the major principles of human diseases. The book may be helpful as well to practitioners and those engaged in medical research. Volume Details: 1. Reproductive Diseases, 2 Hormonal Diseases, 3. Bacterial Diseases, 4. Physiological Diseases, 5. Infectious Diseases.
Examines psychiatric epidemiology's unique evolution, conceptually and socially, within and between diverse regions and cultures, underscoring its growing influence on the biopolitics of nations and worldwide health campaigns.
Noah the friendly virus has long excaped the claustrophobic confines of the computer and found the partner of his dreams. But their idyllic happiness is threatened by an outbreak of avian flu in faraway Thailand. A book that seamlessly weaves together, the intricacies of science and the complexities of the human heart.