Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana /

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Imprint:Legon-Accra, Ghana : for the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2014.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
Series:University of Ghana readers
Clinical sciences series ; no. 3
University of Ghana readers.
Clinical sciences series (University of Ghana) ; no. 3.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11305958
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Other authors / contributors:Ohene, Sammy, editor.
Ofori-Atta, Angela, editor.
University of Ghana, issuing body.
ISBN:9789988860271
9988860277
9789988647384
9988647387
9789988860219
9988860218
9789988860219
Notes:"University of Ghana 65th anniversary reader project."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This Reader is about the changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana. The book includes a brief history of the department and Mental Health Care in Ghana through the eyes of professionals who have lived this history. There is also a revised situation analysis of mental health services and legislation from 2005. These are followed by three main sections on Conceptualization of Mental Illness (depression, religion and illness, autism, substance use disorders and schizophrenia), Mental Health Practice in a teaching hospital setting (referrals to Korle-Bu, how psychiatric illnesses.
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