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Atlas
This new publication from the World Health Organization and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) contains information on nurses working in various mental health settings, including data grouped by geographic region and by country income levels. The information is based on a questionnaire survey conducted in 172 countries around the world which also collected information on undergraduate and graduate level mental health training for nurses.
Trauma Interventions in War and Peace
With traumatic stress an increasing global challenge, the U.N., the NGO community and governments must take into account the psychological aftermath of large-scale catastrophes and individual or group violence. This volume addresses this global perspective, and provides a conceptual framework for interventions in the wake of abuse, torture, war, and disaster on individual, local, regional, and international levels. To be useful to both practitioners and policymakers, the book identifies model programs that can be implemented at every level.
WHO-AIMS
Provides a history of the 1321st regiment, an African American regiment which served in Europe during World War Ii. Includes many black and white photographs.
Handbook for Psychiatric Trainees
This handbook is a must for anyone trying to navigate the landscape of postgraduate medical education.
Suicide
Suicide: An unnecessary death examines the pharmacological, psychotherapeutic, and psychosocial measures adopted by psychiatrists, GPs, and other health-care staff, and emphasizes the need for a clearer psychodynamic understanding of the self if patients are to be successfully recognized, diagnosed and treated.
Trauma and Recovery on War's Border
An increasing number of students and professionals are choosing to travel the globe to engage with the realities of trauma and human suffering through mental health aid. But in the field of global mental health, good intentions are not enough to ensure good training, development, and care. The risk of harm is real when outsiders deliver mental health aid in culturally inappropriate and otherwise na•ve ways. This book, based on the experiences of the co-editors and their colleagues at Burma Border Projects (BBP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the mental health and psychosocial well-being of the displaced people of Burma, sets out global mental health theory allied with local perspec...
Mental Disorder
"This book reflects anthropology's growing encounter with the key "pysch" disciplines (psychology and psychiatry) in theorizing and researching mental illness treatment and recovery. Khan summarizes new approaches to mental illness, situating them in the context of historical, political, psychoanalytic, and postcolonial approaches, and encouraging readers to understand how health, illness, normality, and abnormality is constructed and produced. Using case studies from a variety of regions, Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology/psychiatry/medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures."--
Speaking of Stress Management Through Yoga and Meditation
The book deals with the problems of stress of modern living and provides guidelines for securing release from the Bondage of thoughts, feelings and reflexes. The yogic process is essentially psychosomatic. An integrated health-care programme is prescribed in the book. it has been scientifically evaluated and tested for more than two decades and is based on four distinct elements of yoga technology. There are simple meditative postures to bring about inwardness of the mind. There are simple meditative postures to bring about inwardness of the mind. Therapeutic asanas are carefully selected for release of tension from the muscular and nervous systems and discomfort from the body. Techniques of...
