Challenges in Primary Mental Health Care - Models for Interdisciplinary Collaboration

This insightful book equips family doctors and primary health care professionals with essential knowledge to address crucial challenges in primary mental health care, including COVID-19 impacts, thanatophobia, humanitarian catastrophes, and climate change effects.

Sommario

Introduction Family Medicine facing multiple crisis 1. New and emerging mental health challenges. Issues arising from novel threats, including the war in Ukraine and the resulting refugee crisis, as well as climate change 2. Long COVID and Mental Health: Characterization, Treatment Options, Implications for Service Delivery, and Recommendations for Delivery. 3. Mental health in the post-COVID period: a global health challenge 4. Mental health and remote consultations. Transferring evidence and experience to low-resource settings 5. Mental Health for primary care professionals. The role and leadership of management and health systems in mental health promotion in working settings 6. Priorities for primary mental care in low-resource settings. Implementing sustainable approaches to mental healthcare delivery in settings with traditionally low motivation for mental healthcare 7. Improving interface between generalists and psychiatrists 8. End of life. The new paradigm that has been developed in response to COVID-19 with a focus on home and palliative care 9. Thanatophobia: exacerbation/amplification of existing anxiety disorders/phobias with a focus on GP's key role in encouraging patients to seek help and adhere to healthy behaviors 10. Child Mental Health

Info autore

Christos Lionis is Professor Emeritus of General Practice and Primary Health Care, Laboratory of Health and Society, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Christopher Dowrick is Emeritus Professor of Primary Medical Care at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christos (University of Crete Lionis
• Con la collaborazione di: Christopher Dowrick (Editore), Lionis Christos (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032754277
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275427-7
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: WONCA Family Medicine
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; MEDICAL / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Family & General Practice, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine, Nursing specialties, MEDICAL / Nursing / Mental Health