Mental Health and Illness in the Rural World

1. Advantages and Disadvantages in the Management of Mental Illnesses in Rural Areas

   • Paola Tejada

2. Alcoholism, Substance Use, and Other Addictive Disorders

   • Venkata Lakshmi Narasimha, Arun Kandasamy

3. Challenges of Research in Rural Mental Health in Sri Lanka

   • Athula Sumathipala, Dhanuja Mahesh, Hiranya Wijesundara

4. Common Mental Disorders and Folk Mental Illnesses

   • Abhilash Balakrishnan, Hargun Ahluwalia, Geetha Desai

5. Culture and Mental Health Care in Asia-Pacific Rural Communities

   • Ee Heok Kua

6. Development of Rural Mental Health in Bangladesh

   • Muhammad Zillur Rahman Khan

7. Future of Rural Living and Impact on Mental Health

   • Dinesh Bhugra, Antonio Ventriglio

8. Intellectual Disability in Rural Backgrounds: Challenges and Solutions

   • Mahesh M. Odiyoor, Sujeet Jaydeokar

9. Mental Health Aspects of Rural Living

   • Matthew Kelly, Antonio Ventriglio, Dinesh Bhugra

10. Mental Health Literacy in Rural India

    • Meena Kolar Sridara Murthy, Madhuporna Dasgupta, Santosh K. Chaturvedi

11. Mental Health of Rural Women

    • Prabha S. Chandra, Diana Ross, Preeti Pansari Agarwal

12. Mental Health Professionals in Rural Areas

    • Prabha S. Chandra

13. Methodological Issues in Epidemiological Studies on Mental Health in Rural Populations

    • Vimal Kumar Sharma, Shiv Dutt Gupta, Nikhil Sharma, Nutan Jain

14. Organization of Mental Health Services in Rural Areas

    • Vimal Kumar Sharma

15. Psychopharmacology in Rural Settings

    • Samir Kumar Praharaj, Chittaranjan Andrade

16. Rehabilitation for Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

    • Jagadisha Thirthalli, Thanapal Sivakumar, Chethan Basavarajappa

17. Rural Living and Mental Health: Concepts and Contexts

    • Eesha Sharma, Santosh K. Chaturvedi

18. Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders in Rural Settings

    • Abhinav Nahar, Shiva Shankar Reddy, Geetha Desai

19. Stigma in Rural Settings

    • Vishal Bhavsar, Dinesh Bhugra

20. Stress and Rural Mental Health

    • Bettahalasoor Somashekar, P. S. Reddy, Balaji Wuntakal

This book looks into the mental health challenges in the rural world, the socio economic and cultural factors bearing on them and the best clinical practices to deal with them. It elaborates on the pressures of globalization and modernization that rural people find themselves in which brings about ever increasing stressful conditions. It also covers the lack of awareness about mental health issues and services which lead to further problems.

• Mental illness
• Trauma
• Villages
• cultural belief
• mental health

• N Inst. of Mental Health & Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

  Santosh Chaturvedi

Santosh Chaturvedi is psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, India. He has to his credit more than 400 scientific publications.

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