Education about Mental Health and Illness

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hermans, Marc H.M (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chay-Hoon, Tan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pi, Edmond (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Mental Health and Illness Worldwide,
• Subjects: Psychiatry.; Behavioral sciences.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Neurosciences.; Public health.; Behavioral Sciences.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Public Health.

This book highlights the best educational practices for the professionals dealing with mental health and illness. While attempting an overall review of the current state-of-the-art in psychiatry education, the book focuses on recent developments and controversies in undergraduate and postgraduate ps...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Teaching about co-morbidity of mental and physical diseases
• Acquisition of leadership and management skills
• Links of undergraduate and postgraduate education in psychiatry: how one should influence the other
• Teaching psychiatry to allied professions (possibly several chapters, e.g. on nurses, social workers, defectologists)
• Psychiatrists and Health education about mental illness
• Education about psychosocial aspects of health, the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health.