Title: Epidemiology and the Prevention of Mental Disorders
Abstract: List of contributors, Preface, Part 1: PREVENTION IN PSYCHIATRY: GOALS, STRATEGIES, CONSTRAINTS: 1. Introduction: strategies of prevention Brian Cooper 2. Global and specific approaches to prevention Alexander H. Leighton 3. Barriers to prevention Morton Kramer Part 2: TOWARDS EARLIER DETECTION: CASE-FINDING AND DIAGNOSIS: 4. Incidence of dementing illness among persons aged over 65 years in an urban population Horst Bickel and Brian Cooper 5. Cognitive function and other indices of dementia in a rural elderly female population: preliminary findings Carol Brayne 6. The Munich Alcoholism Test (MALT) as a diagnostic instrument in primary and secondary prevention of alcoholism H. Dilling and A.M. Oschinsky 7. conceptual and methodological problems in estimation of the incidence of mental disorders from field survey data William W. Eaton, Morton Kramer, James C. Anthony, Elsbeth M.L. Chee and Sam Shapiro Part 3 IDENTIFYING AND ASSESSING RISK FACTORS OF MENTAL DISORDERS 8. The aetiology of Alzheimer's disease: can epidemiology contribute? A.S. Henderson 9. Family mobility as a risk for childhood psychopathology Patricia Cohen, Jim Johnson, Elmer L. Struening , and Judith S. Brook 10. The sociodemographic risk factors of depression in octogenarians Hallgrimur Magnusson 11. Risk factors for AIDS-related bereavement in a cohort of homosexual men in New York City John L. Martin and Laura Dean 12. Seasonal variation in suicide in Italy Christa Zimmermann-Tansella, Rocco Micciolo, Paul Williams, and Michele Tansella 13. Course and outcome of schizophrenia: a preliminary communication Norman Sartorius Part 4 FINDING WAYS TO PROTECT VULNERABLE GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS 14. Implications of a vulnerability model for the prevention of affective disorder Tirril Harris 15. Unravelling the causes of homelessness - and of its association with mental illness Ezra Susser, Anne Lovell, and Sarah Conover 16. The effects of research interviews on depressive symptoms in the six weeks following reproductive loss Richard Neugebauer Part 5 PREVENTIVE ACTION IN MENTAL HEALTH AND OTHER MEDICAL SERVICES 17. Multi-level approaches to the prevention of mental disorders in the community: the Athenian experience M.G. Madianos, D. Madianou, G. Gournas, and C.N. Stefanis 18. Preventive aspects of mental health policy in the Netherlands O.H.Brook 19. completed suicides by patients in medical services Jan Beskow 20. Prevention of long-term tranquillizer use Paul Williams, Michael B. King, and Edirimuni K. Rodrigo Part 6 PROMOTING HEALTHIER PUBLIC POLICIES 21. The World Health Organization's views on the prevention of mental disorders in developed and developing countries Norman Sartorius 22. Factors influencing the incidence of mental retardation, and their implications for prevention Annalise Dupont 23. Increase of suicide due to imitation of fictional suicide on television H. Hafner and A. Schmidtke 24. Preventive interventions in the workplace Evelyn J. Bromet and David K. Parkinson.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-05-27
Language: en
Type: book
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