Bücher der Reihe Mental Health and Illness Worldwide

This book presents state of the art knowledge aimed at understanding the clinical and socio-cultural factors that affect mental health of children and adolescents.

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities. It presents the epidemiology of mental disorders in cities, cultural issues of urban mental health care, and community care in large cities and urban slums. Finally, it looks at the increasing challenges of mental disorders in rapidly growing cities.

Longevity is a great gift of medical sciences and modern health care and since the benefit of longevity comes with specific mental health issues of the elderly, this book responds to the heightened need to understand and address the mental health challenges of the elderly.