TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ofori-Atta,Angela
AU  - Ohene,Sammy
ED  - University of Ghana,
TI  - Changing trends in mental health care and research in Ghana
T2  - Clinical sciences series
AV  - RA790.7.G4 C43 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Legon-Accra, Ghana
PB  - For the University of Ghana by Sub-Saharan Publishers
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Research
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "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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