Mental Health in Developing Countries

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Re: Mental Health in Developing Countries

Postby Schulthess » 15 Nov 2012, 12:46

As per my opinion reason of mental health are Depression,Stress ,Schizophrenia & Mental illness etc.What you thought about it?
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Re: Mental Health in Developing Countries

Postby Schulthess » 21 Nov 2012, 08:24

suggest me top metal health clinic in Switzerland?
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Re: Mental Health in Developing Countries

Postby songoma » 03 Mar 2013, 16:33

It is true that mental health in developing countries is left behind, Iam a BScN student , currently Iam taking my mental health and psychiatric nursing. What I found in clinical area in my country the mental health is not priority , there few specialist in these area .somatotherapy is predominant than other therapy like psychotherapy .
I would like to request as a nursing community we can initiate a fund to train nurses who interest in studying and working in mental health which can healp to increase health worker in this field becouse many nurses in my contry wish to specialize to work in area but lack fund to undergo their training
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Re: Mental Health in Developing Countries

Postby drggRN » 04 Mar 2013, 19:28

As many of us know, mental health is an issue in most countries. Anytime a nation has issues of violence in any form, substance abuse in the population and homelessness, there are issues of mental health. Mental illness appears in children as well as adults and is not well treated in many people for lots of reasons. Due to a recent massacre of 20 children and 6 adults in our country by a male who was mentally ill, there is now a country-wide discussion about what to do in caring for the mentally ill. Education of our nurses and other health care providers is central to the solution. First there must be national policy followed by adequate funding for services. In countries where basic needs have to be met first, the challenges are greater but still must be addressed. Sometimes starting with community health workers who are willing to be engaged is a start. Many high resource countries have curriculum developed and may be available to teach or share the curriculum.
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