Innovations in Global Mental Health

This book is a fully updated and expanded edition that adds results, experiences, and lessons learned since the first edition was published. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovation, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered.  A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This edition builds on the first to answer this need.
Since the first edition was published, the complex field of global mental health has expanded. Institutions, NGOs, states and countries have participated in bilateral and other arrangements within the global space. During this period the world witnessed a dramatic and significant pandemic, COVID-19. In the previous edition many of the contributors gave examples of projects and research in their infancy. Therefore, this volume provides information based on the experiences of the last four years. The contributors review their previous experiences, provide results, and express the lessons they have learned since the initiation of their studies or interventions. New topics covered in this edition include, amongst others, psychedelics, stigma and disability, climate change and environmentalism, immigration and refugee problems, and artificial intelligence.
Innovations in Global Mental Health, Second Edition is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.

List of contents

The Challenges and Opportunities for Global Mental Health.- Innovations and a Climate of Creativity in Mental Healthcare Systems.- Role of the United Nations in Global Mental Health.- Evidence for Action: Stimulating Research to Address the Global Mental Health Treatment Gap.- Making Culture and Mental Health Count: Contributions of the King Edward Memorial Hospital Research Centre, Pune.- Capacity Building for a Mental Health System of Care in Liberia.- Providing Mental Health Care in Primary Care Centers in LMICs.- Performing Urbanity Through Carnival on the Streets of Rio de Janeiro: Practical Approaches for Reducing Stigmatization of the Mad in Cities.- Lessons from Research Innovations in Depression and HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Eating Disorders (ED), a Global Epidemic, De-stigmatizing ED to Save Lives.- Rethinking Radicalization Leading to Violence as a Global Health Issue.- Mental Health System Reform in Brazil: Innovation and Challenges for Sustainability.- Challenges in Health Workforce Planning: Caring for a Healthy Health Workforce.- Ethics and Humanitarianism in Global Mental Health.- Mental Health Reform in Peru: Innovations, Challenges, and Sustainability.- From Innovation to Scale: Policy Engagement for Enhanced Community-Based Depression Care in Vietnam.- Mental Health Policy, System, and Services in China.- Mental Health Care in Nomadic Populations: The Case of Kenya.- Indigenous Homelessness and Traditional Knowledges.- Mental Health Care in Saudi Arabia.- Innovating Mental Health Care for Migrants in the Netherlands.- Using Mobile Mental Health Clinics to Increase Access to Mental Health Care in Rural Africa.- Attempts to Achieve Parity and Coverage in Chile in Mental Health.- Delivering Universal Health: A Collaborative Approach.- Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Bioinformatics.- Intelligent Conversational Agents in Global Health.- The Use of Mobile Phones for Frontline Health-Care Workers to Manage Depression.- Challenges and Opportunities in Delivering Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Navigating E-Mental Health.- WHO-mhGAP, MHPSS, IHME, and Other Internet Resources to Address the Global Burden of Mental Health.- Role of Technology Helping Epilepsy Diagnosis in the Developing World Through TeleEEG.- The Potential of Health Information Technologies to Transform Mental Health Care for Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence Using Innovative Technologies.- Global Mental Health and Psychiatry Education.- From Transcultural Psychiatry to Global Mental Health: The Development of a Global Mental Health Program at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.- Connections at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Hawaii s Experiences with Video Teleconferencing for Education, Collaboration, and Services.- Innovation in Medical Education: A Training Partnership in Ghana.- Experience from Ghana: Using the Diaspora Resources to Address Local Gaps and Build on Human Resource Capacity.- Innovations in Global Mental Health.- Developing a Curriculum in Global Mental Health.- Setting Up Community Mental Health.- Examining African Traditional Health Care.- The Jamaican LMIC Challenge to the Biopsychosocial Global Mental Health Model of Western Psychiatry.- Setting Up School Mental Health Program.- African Traditional Medicine and Potential Role for Mental Health.- Traditional Healers and Global Mental Health.- Proactive Telehealth Using Appreciative Curiosity: Innovations from COVID-19.- Step-Wise Development of Primary Care and Community-Based Mental Health Care in a Low-Resource Setting.- Therapeutic Pluralism and the Process of Change.- New Frontiers in Mental Health.- Innovative Frameworks of Resilience Promotion, Advocacy, and Human Rights in LMIC Child Mental Health.- Early Intervention and Youth Mental Health: Synergistic Paradigms to Transform Mental Health Outcomes.- Navigating Juvenile Transfer Laws.- Accessing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Innovations in Continuity of Care Among Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses.- The Friendship Bench Project.- Psychological First Aid.- Taking Mental Health Literacy to the Community.- Accompanying People with Mental Illnesses: The Role of CHWs in Mental Health-Care Services in Chiapas, Mexico.- Integrative Community Therapy.- A Community-Based Mental Health Intervention: Promoting Mental Health Services in Rwanda.- Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-Being of LGBT and Intersex Persons.- Community-Based Learning Club for Women s Health and Infant Development in Rural Vietnam.- WARMI (Woman in Quechua-Aymara).- Delivering Truly Evidence-Based Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Dangers of Experimentation.- SAFE from Suicide.- Innovating Care of Addictions in Low-Resource Settings.- China s Role in the Biological Psychiatry Research.- Challenges in Integrating Mental Health into Primary Care in Vietnam.- Classification: The Foundation and Essential Catalyst for Advancing Mental Health Globally.- Task Shifting.- Volunteering in Mental Health.- Promotion of Recovery Through Socio-economic Inclusion for People Living with Severe Mental Illness.- Human Rights Aspects of Persons with Mental Health Conditions or Psychosocial Disabilities.- Family-Led Care for People Living with Severe and Enduring Mental Illness (SEMIs) in the Low-Resource Settings.- Mental Health of Older Adults.- Suicide Prevention.- Crisis Intervention and PTSD-Related Research in China.- Reconstructing Post-Conflict Iraq: Focus on Mental Health.- Can Laws Commit Governments to Provide Mental Health Services? A Role for Human Rights in Securing Resources.- Strategic Litigation in Action: A Practical Experience of Litigating on Behalf of People with Psychosocial Disabilities.- The Global Mental Health Peer Network.- Mindfulness and Mental Health.- The Role of Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health.- Innovative Programs Support Recovery and Resiliency in Adult and Child Survivors of Mass Disasters.- Virtual Care in Mental-Health the Future is Digital.-  Artificial Intelligence as a Powerful Tool for Better Mental Healthcare.- On Artificial Intelligence and Global Mental Health .- The Impact of Pandemics on Mental Illness and its Treatments on the Background of the COVID Experiences.- COVID-19 Pandemia and Public and Global Mental Health from the Perspective of Global Health Security.- Psychedelics in the Treatment of Depression and Trauma Between Risk and Option.- Psychedelic Therapy-A New Paradigm of Care for Mental Health.- The Current Status of Psyhedelics in Psychiatry.- Mental health and lived experience: The value of lived experience expertise in global mental health.- Learning How to Learn Together: Integrating Lived Experience Into Mental Health Care.- Ecological grief as a mental health response to climate change-related loss.- The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review.- War Migration, and Severe Trauma How to Provide Care for the Most Vulnerable.- Refugee Mental Health and Place series: Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry survey.

About the author

Samuel O. Okpaku M.D., Ph.D. is the President and Founder of the Center for Health, Culture, and Society in Nashville, Tennessee. He has an M.D. from Edinburgh University Medical School in Scotland and a Ph.D. in Social Research and Welfare from Brandeis University. He also has training and background in Internal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Canada, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, and he is a Lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has been on the faculty at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy. He was also Chairman and Professor of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College. He is a Past President of the Black Psychiatrists of America. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. His research interests have included depression, psychotherapy, drug abuse, disability reduction, participation in SSI and SSDI programs, and cultural psychiatry. He is widely published in these areas. His current interest is in global mental health. His publications in this area include: Mental Health in Africa and America Today, Clinical Methods in Transcultural Psychiatry, Essentials of Global Mental Health, and Innovations in Global Mental Health. His current project is a Multidisciplinary Training Handbook on Global Mental Health. He has served on the Board of Health (1996—2011) and was a Secretary of the Metro Nashville Board of Health (2004—2011). He is the recipient of several awards both national and international. His hobbies include music and traveling.
Since the publication of the 1st edition this editor has given webinars and lectures both nationally and internationally on the principal topic of Reflections on Global Mental Health: Ethical and Humanitarian Considerations.

Summary

This book is a fully updated and expanded edition that adds results, experiences, and lessons learned since the first edition was published. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovation, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered.  A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This edition builds on the first to answer this need.
Since the first edition was published, the complex field of global mental health has expanded. Institutions, NGOs, states and countries have participated in bilateral and other arrangements within the global space. During this period the world witnessed a dramatic and significant pandemic, COVID-19. In the previous edition many of the contributors gave examples of projects and research in their infancy. Therefore, this volume provides information based on the experiences of the last four years. The contributors review their previous experiences, provide results, and express the lessons they have learned since the initiation of their studies or interventions. New topics covered in this edition include, amongst others, psychedelics, stigma and disability, climate change and environmentalism, immigration and refugee problems, and artificial intelligence.
Innovations in Global Mental Health, Second Edition is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.

Product details

• Assisted by: Samuel Okpaku (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2026
• EAN: 9783032068262
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3206826-2
• No. of pages: 1780
• Illustrations: XX, 1780 p. 175 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Klinische Psychologie, Stigma, Depression, Artificial Intelligence, Public Health und Präventivmedizin, Climate Change, War, Klinische und Innere Medizin, Immigration, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Psychiatry, Public Health, Clinical psychology, PTSD, Disability, Refugee, Social Isolation, Anxiety, Disaster, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, psychedelics, global mental health, Political instability, Worry, mood disorder, Financial worries