Description

The book covers a wide range of topics. It includes mental health disorders and how they are generally recognized and managed, covering the whole spectrum of life.

It also includes description of subjects of interest in relation to mental disorders.



Besides describing those common situations, the book also addresses various approaches to the management of various mental health disorders and situations, by mental health workers

but most importantly what they can do for themselves in their homes and in mitigations against the costs and stigma of mental illness.



It is hoped this book will serve to demystify mental disorders, and in the process significantly destigmatize people with mental disorders and in the process allow them together with their relatives,

to come forward and demand for equal treatment, services and rights from the health professionals, policy makers, and medical insurers.



This book is a must-read for everybody who cares for their mental well-being health and that of others.


Table of Contents



Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11



PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.What is mental health and what is a mental disorder?

2.Spirituality and mental health

3.The linkages between spirituality, religion, and mental health: an African perspective

4.Parental upbringing and child rearing practices

5.The fight against stigma because of mental diseases

6.A voice out of blossoms: the voice of the consumers and survivors of mental health services

7.The rights of persons with mental illness inernational perspective

8.Rights of persons with mental illness Kenyan perspective

9.Rights of persons with mental illness other considerations .



PART II: MENTAL HEALTH ALONG THE LIFE SPAN . . . . . 123

10.Mental retardation

11.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

12.Is your child depressed?

13.School phobia

14.Behavioural disorders in children

15.Mood disorders

16.Depression

17.Suicide and suicidal behaviour .

18.Anxiety disorders

19.Posttraumatic stress disorder

20.Schizophrenia –introduction Understanding schizophrenia

21.Features of schizophrenia

22.Treatment options for schizophrenia

23.Drug abuse: introduction

24.Drug abuse: depressants

25.Drug abuse: stimulants

26.Drug abuse: hallucinogens

27.Drug abuse: drugs under special circumstances

28.Mental health aspects of organic disorders and epilepsy

29.Sleep and sleep disorders

30.Human sexual behaviour and sexual dysfunction

31.The mental health aspects of old age

32.Struggling with my father’s alzheimer’s disease

33.Death and dying across the age spectrum



PART III:MENTAL HEALTH IN SPECIAL CONDITIONS . . 429

34.Bullying in schools

35.The mental health aspects of hiv/aids

36.Disasters and mental health

37.Mental health aspects of pregnancy and child birth

38.Mental health at the workplace

39.Posttraumatic stress disorder in children exposed to human conflict.



PART IV: MANAGEMENTS AND TREATMENTS . . . . . . . . . . 497

40.Community rehabilitation and detoxification

41.A community-based approach to mental health care in Kenya

42.Psychological treatment of mental disorders

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .553


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