Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health

Prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion have often been ignored in the past, both in undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Recently, however, there has been a clear shift towards public mental health, as a result of increasing scientific evidence that both these actions have a serious potential to reduce the onset of illness and subsequent burden as a result of mental illness and related social, economic and political costs. A clear distinction between prevention of mental illness and mental health promotion is critical. Selective prevention, both at societal and individual level, is an important way forward. The Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health brings together the increasing interest in public mental health and the growing emphasis on the prevention of mental ill health and promotion of well-being into a single comprehensive textbook. Comprising international experiences of mental health promotion and mental well-being, chapters are supplemented with practical examples and illustrations to provide the most relevant information succinctly. This book will serve as an essential resource for mental and public health professionals, as well as for commissioners of services, nurses and community health visitors.

1 - Principles of public health: Application to public mental health
2 - Social inequalities and mental health
3 - Economic costs of mental illness
4 - The global burden of mental and substance use disorders: A review of methods, findings and applications of data from the Global Burden of Disease study
5 - Models of causation of mental illness
6 - Genetic influences across the age span
7 - Public mental health and anthropology: An ecological approach
8 - Social factors and mental health
9 - The epidemiological burden of major psychiatric disorders
10 - Critical epidemiology
11 - Occupational epidemiology
12 - Public mental health and occupational health
13 - Health equity
14 - Social capital and mental health
15 - Controversies in well-being: Confronting and resolving the challenges
16 - Unemployment and mental health
17 - Housing and mental health
18 - Social class and mental health: The impact of international recession and austerity
19 - The social determinants of mental health
20 - Social determinants in low income countries
21 - Mental and physical health
22 - Clinical outcome assessment in mental health
23 - Environmental contaminants and mental health: The chemicalization of life as a matter of violation of the right to health and renewal of the disease industry
24 - Family, marriage, and mental health
25 - Prisoners and mental health
26 - LGBTI and mental health
27 - Sexual minority adolescents and mental health
28 - Children and adolescents
29 - Recognising mental health problems in the ageing community
30 - Mental health in intellectual disability
31 - Physical and psychiatric comorbidity
32 - Globalization, migration, and mental health: A conceptual model for health research
33 - Treatment of mental health problems in refugees and asylum seekers
34 - Lifestyle
35 - Prevention approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm
36 - Prevention of drug addiction
37 - Implications of the global mental health and HIV syndemic on HIV prevention and care
38 - Suicide and the prevention of suicidal behaviours
39 - Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: Risk and protective factors and universal evidence-based suicide prevention programmes
40 - Parenting skills and promotion of mental health over the lifespan
41 - Pregnancy: The earliest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental disorders
42 - Promoting mental health and well-being: What can schools do?
43 - Early intervention in psychiatry
44 - Anti-stigma interventions: Theory and evidence
45 - Managing stress
46 - Psychological intervention as a measure for promoting public mental health: Is it a white elephant?
47 - Diet, environment, and mental health
48 - Mental health and its social determinants: Some experiences of the Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA) in India
49 - Interpersonal violence
50 - Poverty and interpersonal violence
51 - NGOs and mental health
52 - Public health and terrorism
53 - Resilience and wellbeing
54 - Resilience and the role of spirituality
55 - Innovations in the area of social media
56 - Telemental health: A public mental health perspective
57 - Policy and public mental health in low and middle income countries
58 - Managing research and evaluation for public mental health
59 - Working with traditional healers to reduce mental health treatment gap in low and middle income countries
60 - Conclusion

Dinesh Bhugra is an Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK. Kamaldeep Bhui is a Professor of Cultural Psychiatry & Epidemiology at the Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. Samuel Yeung Shan Wong is Associate Director at the School of Public Health and Primary Care, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Stephen E. Gilman is Associate Professor in the Departments of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.