Evaluation Of Mental Health Services In The Orange Free State

In many African countries, mental health issues, including the burden of serious mental illness and trauma, have not been adequately addressed. These essays shed light on the treatment of common and chronic mental disorders, including mental illness and treatment in the current climate of economic and political instability, access to health care, access to medicines, and the impact of HIV-AIDS and other chronic illness on mental health. While problems are rampant and carry real and devastating consequences, this volume promotes an understanding of the African mental health landscape in service of reform.

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Readership: Geneticists and clinicians worldwide in addition to graduate students and researchers interested in populations and genomics

Hardbound. The provision of health services does not appear to meet the needs of the population and it is clear that strategies implemented by the majority of countries healthcare systems are not offering adequate solutions to deal with the problem facing modern societies today. Thus, Emergency Psychiatry and Mental Health Policy, an international perspective on emergency psychiatry will fill the need. It contains comprehensive compilation of experiences and opinions from individuals who suffer from psychiatric disorder. Their reports serve as a catalyst that will facilitate the development of emergency psychiatry which in turn will be beneficial to general psychiatry and to medicine as a whole. This volume testifies to the rich experiences acquired and the increase in the specific interventions and the techniques required to treat psychiatric problems. Emergency Psychiatry and Mental Health Policy reveals the methological and ideolog