ISBN:
9780192527059
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Cultural Psychiatry Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Urban mental health
DDC:
616.890091732
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Cities and towns-Social aspects
Abstract:
Edited by pioneers in social psychiatry and cultural psychiatry, this resource discusses the challenges of managing mental health and psychiatric disorders in urban areas.
Abstract:
Cover -- Urban Mental Health -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sociology and the study of cities -- 3 Urban design and mental health -- 4 Globalization and urbanization -- 5 Internal migration and internal boundaries -- 6 Why urban environments matter for refugee mental health -- 7 Urbanization and mental health -- 8 Urbanization and marginalization -- 9 Neuroscience of mental illness in the city -- 10 The psychogenic city -- 11 Cross-cultural contact: psychosis and the city in modern life -- 12 Research challenges -- 13 Urban design for adolescent mental health -- 14 What has changed in children's behavioural problems reported in Mexico City over a 13-year period? -- 15 Common mental disorders in cities -- 16 Suicide in cities -- 17 Sex in the city -- 18 Gender and sexual minorities -- 19 A tale of two cities: urban mental health in Vancouver and New York City -- 20 Urban design for mental health in Tokyo -- 21 Urban mental health strategies -- 22 Re-conceptualizing urban spaces: towards recovery and reintegration of women living with mental disorders -- 23 Work, worklessness, and mental health -- 24 Conclusions -- Index.
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