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Mental Health Programs

An International Perspective

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The past 20 years have seen a significant increase in priority assigned to mental health programs in many countries. This is particularly true for developing countries and could be due to four partly independent factors:

  • • First, to the awareness that mental disorders, as well as problems related to substance abuse, are increasing in numbers and are of a frightening magnitude in developed and developing countries, east and west, north and south;*

  • • Second, to the demonstration that prevention and treatment of mental disorders are possible and can be done using effective low-cost technology;

  • • Third, to the recognition that the hopes that were placed in technological solutions to problems caused by diseases in general did not come true and that it will be necessary to rely on behavioral and mental health approaches in preventing many such diseases and coping with their consequences; and that there are no obvious solutions to the almost universal growth of psychosocial problems, such as juvenile delinquency, problems of adaptation in migrants to towns, disintegration of families; and

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