Mental Health and Illness in the City

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Okkels, Niels (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kristiansen, Christina Blanner (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Munk-Jørgensen, Povl (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Mental Health and Illness Worldwide,
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Neurosciences.; Public health.; Psychiatry.; Behavioral sciences.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Life Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Public Health.

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities. It presents the epidemiology of mental disorders in cities, cultural issues of urban mental health care, and community care in large cities and urban slums. It also includes chapters on homelessness, crime and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Tentative Table of Contents - Prevalence of mental disorders in cities worldwide
• Positive factors for mental health promotion, prevention and treatment in city settings
• City planning, neighborhoods and mental health
• Green environment and mental health in the city. (Author: Kua Ee Heok). - Ghettoes, cultural groupings and mental disorders
• Slums and economic disparities in mental health
• Failure of community care in large cities and urban slums
• The challenges of growing cities to mental health services
• Cultural diversity and mental health
• Institutions - prisons and asylums and the deinstitutionalization
• Homelessness and challenges of community care
• Mental health, crime and illicit drug use
• Terrorism and psychiatry
• Racism, stigma and religion in mental health. - Loneliness and single person households
• Mental disorders in rapidly growing cities
• Future perspectives.