Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana / editors, Angela Ofori-Atta, Sammy Ohene.
Material type: TextSeries: Clinical sciences series ; no. 3. | University of Ghana readersPublisher: Legon-Accra, Ghana : For the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9789988860271 (e-book)
- RA790.7.G4 C43 2014eb
"University of Ghana 65th anniversary reader project."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section A: Mental healthcare in Ghana. Introduction ; Overview of mental healthcare in Ghana ; History of the department of psychiatry ; An updated situation analysis of mental health services and legislation in Ghana: challenges for transformation -- Section B: Conceptualization of mental illness. The Ghanaian non-medical conceptualization of mood disorders ; Religion and psychotherapy ; The state of autism in Ghana: a focus on cultural understanding and challenges in the Ghanaian setting ; Substance use disorders in Ghana ; Schizophrenia in primary care -- Section C: Mental health practice in a teaching hospital setting. Liaison psychiatry in Korle Bu teaching hospital ; Neuropsychological functioning of adult sickle cell disease patients in Ghana ; Psychological wellbeing and quality of life among chronic kidney disease patients in Ghana ; Irritable bowel syndrome and related functional bowel disorders in an urban gastroenterology practice ; Group therapy for mothers of unwell neonatal infants ; Play therapy: a pilot project supporting children undergoing cancer treatment at the Korle Bu teaching hospital ; Breaking bad news -- Section D: Research in psychiatry and clinical biology. A qualitative study of stresses faced by Ghanaian medical students ; Is the concept of learning disabilities applicable for Ghana? ; Dilemmas of healthcare professionals in Ghana ; Experience of strengthening the mental health information system in Ghana's three psychiatric hospitals ; The way forward for mental health in the 21st century in Ghana.
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