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Title Mental health conditions and services in selected African countries : implications for social work and human services professions / Marie-Antoinette Sossou and Tirelo Modie-Moroka, editors
Published New York : Nova Biomedical, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Mental illnesses and treatments
Mental illnesses and treatments.
Contents Botswana -- ch. 1 A Historical Evolution of Mental Health Services in Botswana: Past and Present / Tirelo Modie-Moroka -- ch. 2 Mental Health Care, HIV, and AIDs in Botswana: Challenges and Opportunities / Refilwe P. Sinkamba -- Ghana -- ch. 3 Mental Health Care and Service in Ghana / Mercy M. Ackumey -- Kenya -- ch. 4 How Mental Health Is Understood in Africa: The Prevalence of Mental Disorders in Kenya / Japheth Jaoko -- ch. 5 Delivery of Mental Health Services in Kenya / Elizabeth Muriu -- Nigeria -- ch. 6 Mental Health in Nigeria: Perspectives and Health Care Interventions among the Yorubas / Isaiah Mobalaji Ojedokun -- Rwanda
Ch. 7 The 1994 Genocide in Rwanda: The Effects on Children and Psycho-Social Intervention / Vincent Sezibera -- ch. 8 Mental Health Care in Hospitals in Rwanda / Pierre Philippot -- South Africa -- ch. 9 Mental Health Services in South Africa / Willem J.H. Roestenburg, Charlene Carbonatto, Nontembeko J. Bila -- Uganda -- ch. 10 Towards Understanding the Dilemmas in the Prevention of Mental Illness in Africa: Lessons from Uganda / James Mugisha -- Zambia -- ch. 11 How Mental Health Is Understood in Africa: The Case of Zambia / Samson Chama
Bibliography Includes biographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Mental health services -- Africa
Human services -- Africa
Mental health services.
Mental Health Services
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
MEDICAL / Health Policy
Human services
Mental health services
SUBJECT Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
Africa https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000349
Subject Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Sossou, Marie-Antoinette, editor
Modie-Moroka, Tirelo, editor
LC no. 2019721468
ISBN 9781634852920
1634852923