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"[A] masterful volume that will do much to advance understanding of mental health as an essential public health challenge."
-Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
THE GROUNDBREAKING TEXTBOOK IN POPULATION-LEVEL MENTAL HEALTH, NOW FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
Public Mental Health equips a new generation of public health students, researchers, and practitioners with the most innovative social, biological, and behavioral science approaches to mental health challenges at the population level. Incorporating insights from multiple health and science disciplines, this new edition introduces novel concepts and methodologies for understanding the occurrence of mental disorders in populations worldwide.
List of contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Section 1: The Nature of Mental and Behavioral Disorders
- 1: THE BURDEN OF MENTAL DISORDERS
- William W. Eaton
- O. Joseph Bienvenu
- Gerald Nestadt
- Heather Volk
- 2: PSYCHIATRIC NOSOLOGY: APPROACHES TO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF MENTAL DISORDERS
- Paul Nestadt
- Karen Seymour
- James Potash
- Paul McHugh
- 3: GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES: CULTURE AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
- Judith K. Bass
- Emily Haroz
- Norman Sartorius
- Section 2: Methods
- 4: ASSESSMENT OF DISTRESS, DISORDER, IMPAIRMENT AND NEED IN THE POPULATION
- William W. Eaton
- Ramin Mojtabai
- Jeannie-Marie S. Leoutsakos
- Jaana Myllyluoma
- 5: INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE METHODS RELEVANT TO PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH
- Elizabeth A. Stuart
- Jeannie-Marie Sheppard Leoutsakos
- Rashelle Musci
- Alden Gross
- Ryan M. Andrews
- William W. Eaton
- Section 3: Descriptive Epidemiology
- 6: THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF MENTAL DISORDERS
- William W. Eaton
- Ronald C. Kessler
- Preben Bo Mortensen
- Kim Roth
- 7: ADULT MENTAL DISORDERS IN ASSOCIATION WITH SOCIOECONOMIC POSITION, RACE/ETHNICITY, AND SEXUAL and GENDER MINORITY STATUS
- Renee M. Johnson
- Sabriya Linton
- Sari Reiser
- Preben Bo Mortensen
- Silvia Martins
- William W. Eaton
- 8: SUICIDE
- Holly C. Wilcox
- Diana Clarke
- Stephanie G. Smith
- Adrienne Grzenda
- William W. Eaton
- Section 4: Mechanisms of Risk
- 9: GENES AS A SOURCE OF RISK FOR MENTAL DISORDERS
- Peter P. Zandi
- Holly Wilcox
- Yian Lin
- Brion Maher
- M. Danielle Fallin
- 10: MENTAL DISORDERS AND THE BRAIN ACROSS THE LIFE SPAN
- Michelle C. Carlson
- Adam Spira
- George Rebok
- Joe Gallo
- Jeanine Parisi
- Kyle Moored
- 11: MODELS OF STRESS AND ADAPTING TO RISK: A LIFE-COURSE, DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE
- George W. Rebok
- Catherine P. Bradshaw
- Heather E. Volk
- Tamar Mendelson
- William W. Eaton
- Elizabeth J. Letourneau
- Sheppard G. Kellam
- 12: ADAPTING TO ACUTE CRISIS
- Carla L. Storr
- Daniel Lakin
- Wietse Tol
- Section 5: The Behavioral Health Care Service System
- 13: MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE USE, AND THE LAW
- Deborah Agus
- Kristin Schneider
- 14: AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AFTER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT: PERSPECTIVE THROUGH CARE PATTERNS FOR 100 ADULTS, WITH AGGREGATE FACILITY, SERVICE, AND COST ESTIMATES
- Ronald W. Manderscheid
- Victoria R. Green
- Anita Everett
- Phillip Leaf
- Colleen Barry
- 15: COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN THE UNITED STATES
- Anita Everett
- 16: PATHWAYS TO CARE: NEED, ATTITUDES, BARRIERS
- Ramin Mojtabai
- William W. Eaton
- Sarah Murray
- 17: MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEMS AROUND THE WORLD
- Shekhar Saxena
- Jeremy Kane
- Noa Krawczyk
- William Eaton
- Judith Bass
- Section 6: Prevention and the Future
- 18: THE LOGIC AND PRACTICE OF THE PREVENTION OF MENTAL DISORDERS
- Tamar Mendelson
- Elise T. Pas
- Angela E. Lee-Winn
- Catherine P. Bradshaw
- George W. Rebok
- Wallace Mandell
- 19: THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH: PROGRESS MADE BUT MUCH MORE TO BE DONE
- M. Daniele Fallin
- Phillip J. Leaf
- Laysha Ostrow
- Ronald W. Manderscheid
- David L. Shern
- Calliope Holingue
- Johannes Thrul
- Peter Zandi
- William W. Eaton
- Index
About the author
William W. Eaton is professor in the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and former chair of that department. His doctoral training is in sociology. Before coming to Johns Hopkins he was assistant chief, Center for Epidemiologic Studies, National Institute of Mental Health. He was principal collaborator on the NIMH Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study, and has authored or coauthored more than 300 articles and chapters, and written or edited nine books, all in the area of psychiatric epidemiology and public mental health.
M. Danielle Fallin is Sylvia and Harold Halpert professor and chair of the Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology. Her doctoral training is in genetic epidemiology. She is Director of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has
authored or coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in the area of psychiatric epidemiology and public mental health.
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The strengths of this text are extensive. The book never loses sight of prevention as the ultimate goal in public health and as the ideal future for the field. The cultural aspects that are so often neglected in the literature are comprehensively discussed in an opening chapter and referenced throughout. The epidemiologic models that frame each chapter are at the forefront of current research, particularly the use of the life?course approach. Finally, the sections and chapters are well coordinated, with little overlap or redundancy.
