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Title Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana / editors, Angela Ofori-Atta, Sammy Ohene.

Publication Info. Legon-Accra, Ghana : for the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages :) : illustrations (some color).
text file
Series University of Ghana readers
Clinical sciences series ; no. 3
University of Ghana readers.
Clinical sciences series (University of Ghana) ; no. 3.
Note "University of Ghana 65th anniversary reader project."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Subject Psychiatry -- Research -- Ghana.
Psychiatry -- Research.
Ghana.
Mental health services -- Ghana.
Mental health services.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ohene, Sammy, editor.
Ofori-Atta, Angela, editor.
University of Ghana, issuing body.
Other Form: Print version: Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana. Legon-Accra, Ghana : for the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2014 (DLC) 2013441928
ISBN 9789988860271 (electronic book)
9988860277 (electronic book)
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