Promoting Mental Health in Scarce-Resource Contexts: Emerging Evidence and Practice
Inge Petersen, Arvin Bhana, Alan J. Flisher, Leslie Swartz, Linda RichterExploring the potential behind mental health promotion to help people adjust to and cope with life’s challenges, this examination also highlights its importance in low to middle-income contexts where hardship is common, emphasizing how it can strengthen social and economic development. Providing a relevant conceptual and theoretical base for the application of mental health promotion in impoverished circumstances, this analysis offers examples of evidence-based programs across the lifespan applicable in these specific settings. With contributions from a range of experts in the field, this is a vital text for mental health and general public health students and practitioners as well as policymakers and planners.
Godina:
2010
Izdavač:
Human Sciences Research Council
Jezik:
english
Strane:
232
ISBN 10:
0796923051
ISBN 13:
9782072400858
Fajl:
PDF, 9.17 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010