Research Catalog

Title

Mental health in Africa and the Americas today : a book of conference proceedings / edited by Samuel O. Okpaku.

Publication

Nashville, Tenn. : Chrisolith Books, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Okpaku, Samuel O.
• African Psychiatric Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• Black Psychiatrists of America

Description

xxiii, 507 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Mental health services > United States > Congresses
• Mental health > United States > Congresses
• Mental health services > Africa > Congresses
• Mental health > Africa > Congresses
• Mental Health
• Africa
• United States
• Congress
• Psychotherapy
• Mental Disorders
• Mental Health Services
• Cross-Cultural Comparison

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "This volume represents a significant portion of the papers presented at the first joint conference sponsored by the African Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the Black Psychiatrists of America."--Pref. [p. xvii].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Mentally ill in modern and traditional African societies / Ayo Binitie (16 p.). -- Development of psychiatry in Africa / Tolani S Asuni (16 p.). -- Social consequences of psychoses for psychotic patients in Western Province, Kenya, after treatment / G.P.M Assen (20 p.). -- Acute psychosis and rapid social change in Swaziland / E.A Guinness (38 p.). -- Psychiatry in Libya's eastern region / Selim M Elbadri (6 p.). -- Monosymptomatic delusions of smell : are these new symptoms in East Africa? / M.A Fazel (10 p.). -- Notes on the history of blacks in American psychiatry / Jeanne Spurlock (16 p.). -- Psychiatric care of the AIDS patient in Africa and the Americas / Joyce M Johnson (14 p.). -- Biological approaches to mental health problems in Africa today / A.O Odejide (14 p.).
• Possible cultural variations in adult development / Samuel O Okpaku (14 p.). -- Emergence of psychological discourse in Kenya / Marie Coleman Nelson (6 p.). -- Epidemiology of mental disorders in Kenya / Manohar Dhadphale (8 p.). -- Role of EEG in diagnosis and management of psychoneurotic disorders in Nairobi / S.G Gatere (8 p.). -- Major mental illness in two Kenyan rural outposts / Lawrence E Banta (8 p.). -- Case study of James Peter : an example of transitional group psychotherapy in Malawi / Karl Peltzer (18 p.). -- Forensic psychiatry in Africa today / Tolani S Asuni (10 p.). -- Crime and mental illness in Africa : a retrospective study of court referrals to a provincial psychiatric clinic in Kenya / F.G Matete (8 p.). -- Psychosomatic structuring among Africans / Sobbie A.Z Mulindi (14 p.).
• Homoracial and heteroracial behavior in the United States / Chester M Pierce (10 p.). -- Child psychiatry in Kenya / F.G Njenga (8 p.). -- Black children in psychiatric outpatient treatment in the United States / Harry H Wright (14 p.). -- Child psychiatry in Kenya (2 p.). -- Black children in psychiatric outpatient treatment (2 p.). -- Child psychiatry (6 p.). -- Cannabis psychosis : facts and myth / R. Onyango Sumba (8 p.). -- Specific problems of drug abuse in Kenya / S.W Acuda (12 p.). -- Medical and social aspects of Khat use in Kenya / O.E Omolo (8 p.). -- Trihexyphenidyl in Zimbabwe / Myrl S Manley (8 p.). -- Special aspects of alcoholism among American blacks / Roy W Menninger (12 p.). -- Problems in psychiatry services in Sub-Saharan African countries / G Mustafa (8 p.).
• Postgraduate psychiatric education in Africa / Ayo Binitie (6 p.). -- Training of mental health nurses in Kenya : challenges and problems / C.M Mbugua (6 p.). -- Role of voluntary agencies in the development of mental health programs in Kenya / Lawrence E Banta (6 p.). -- Community mental health services in Nairobi, Kenya / M.M.O Okonji (6 p.). -- Providing mental health services with meager resources in Tanzania / G Bugaisa (14 p.). -- Chronic mentally ill : what do we know, and why aren't we implementing what we know? / John A Talbott (28 p.). -- Crisis model's compatability with meager resources / Lee Ann Hoff (14 p.).

ISBN

0916085015 (pbk.) :

OCLC

• 26962580
• SCSB-14234709

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library