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Global Mental Health Ethics

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  • Serves as a trustworthy reference for emerging challenges in global mental health
  • Includes learning tools for study and quick review, such as review questions, chapter summaries, and appendices
  • The first book consider the ethical challenges of global mental health alongside the medical implications
  • Written by expert educators in global mental health and ethics

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This volume addresses gaps in the existing literature of global mental health by focusing on the ethical considerations that are implicit in discussions of health policy. In line with trends in clinical education around the world today, this text is explicitly designed to draw out the principles and values by which programs can be designed and policy decisions enacted. It presents an ethical lens for understanding right and wrong in conditions of scarcity and crisis, and the common controversies that lead to conflict. Additionally, a focus on the mental health response in “post-conflict” settings, provides guidance for real-world matters facing clinicians and humanitarian workers today.

Global Mental Health Ethics fills a crucial gap for students in psychiatry, psychology, addictions, public health, geriatric medicine, social work, nursing, humanitarian response, and other disciplines.

 


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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Social Determinants and Global Mental Health

  2. Interventions and Public Health Programs

  3. Global Mental Health and Human Rights

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Allen R. Dyer

  • Division of Global Mental Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Brandon A. Kohrt

  • Department of Behavioral Health, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC, USA

    Philip J. Candilis

About the editors

Allen R. Dyer, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vice-chair for Education
The George Washington University
2120 L Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20037 USA

Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD
Charles and Sonia Akman Professor of Global Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Global Health
Director, Division of Global Mental Health
The George Washington University
2120 L St NW, Suite 600
Washington DC 20037

Philip J. Candilis, MD, DFAPA
Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine
Director of Medical Affairs
Co-Director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Saint Elizabeths Hospital
DC Department of Behavioral Health
1100 Alabama Avenue SE
Washington DC 20032

Dr. Dyer received MD and PhD degrees from Duke University, the PhD in ethics.  He has served in a number of academic and administrative positions and in 2009 he moved to Washington, DC, to serve as Senior Health Advisor to the International Medical Corps, before joining the Global Mental Health program at the department of psychiatry at the George 500Washington University.  He is the author of several books on professional ethics including Ethics and Psychiatry:  Toward Professional Definition and (co-author with Laura Roberts) of A Concise Guide to Ethics in Mental Health Care as well as a cancer memoir, One More Mountain to Climb:  What my Illness Taught me about Health.  He has worked in disaster affected communities in China after the Great Sichuan Earthquake, Haiti, Japan after its Triple Disaster and particularly in Iraq to improve health infrastructure. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Global Mental Health Ethics

  • Editors: Allen R. Dyer, Brandon A. Kohrt, Philip J. Candilis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66296-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66295-0Published: 23 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66298-1Published: 24 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66296-7Published: 22 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 402

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Nursing Ethics, General Practice / Family Medicine

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