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.

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.

- Introduction - Section 1: Background and general principles - 1: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Principles of public health: Application to public mental health - 2: Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot: Social inequalities and mental health - 3: Anita Patel: Economic costs of mental illness - 4: Alize J. Ferrari, Holly E. Erskine, Fiona J. Charlson, Damian F. Santomauro, Janni Leung, and Harvey A. Whiteford: 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: Kwame McKenzie: Models of causation of mental illness - 6: Edward Shaw and Daniel J. Smith: Genetic influences across the age span - 7: Joshua Moses and Robert Whitley: Public mental health and anthropology: An ecological approach - 8: Tom K. J. Craig: Social factors and mental health - 9: Jennifer Dykxhoorn and James Kirkbride: The epidemiological burden of major psychiatric disorders - 10: Felix J. Rosenberg and Daniel Miranda: Critical epidemiology - 11: Angelo d'Errico and Giuseppe Costa: Occupational epidemiology - 12: Katie Blissard Barnes and Max Henderson: Public mental health and occupational health - 13: Hideki Hashimoto and Norito Kawakami: Health equity - Section 2: Evidence - 14: Kwame McKenzie: Social capital and mental health - 15: Felicia A. Huppert and Kai Ruggeri: Controversies in well-being: Confronting and resolving the challenges - 16: Mel Bartley: Unemployment and mental health - 17: Tom K. J. Craig and Jed Boardman: Housing and mental health - 18: M. Harvey Brenner: Social class and mental health: The impact of international recession and austerity - 19: Kamaldeep Bhui: The social determinants of mental health - 20: Syed Masud Ahmed and Mohammad Didar Hossain: Social determinants in low income countries - 21: Mike McHugh: Mental and physical health - 22: Skye P. Barbic and Stefan J. Cano: Clinical outcome assessment in mental health - 23: Paulo Amarante and Eduardo Torre: 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 - Section 3: Special groups - 24: Fasli Sidheek, Veena A. Satyanarayana, and Geetha Desai: Family, marriage, and mental health - 25: Kenneth L. Appelbaum: Prisoners and mental health - 26: Martin Plöderl, Lieselotte Mahler, Timo O. Nieder, and Götz Mundle: LGBTI and mental health - 27: Richard Montoro: Sexual minority adolescents and mental health - 28: Jessica L. Plauché and Bennett L. Leventhal: Children and adolescents - 29: Linda Chiu Wa Lam and Wai Chi Chan: Recognising mental health problems in the ageing community - 30: Sabyasachi Bhaumik, Dasari Mohan Michael, Reza Kiani, Avinash Hiremath, Shweta Gangavati and Amala Jesu: Mental health in intellectual disability - 31: Niels Okkels, Christina Blanner Kristiansen, and Povl Munk-Jørgensen: Physical and psychiatric comorbidity - 32: Vishal Bhavsar, Shuo Zhang, and Dinesh Bhugra: Globalization, migration, and mental health: A conceptual model for health research - 33: Giulia Cossu, Antonio Preti, and Mauro Carta: Treatment of mental health problems in refugees and asylum seekers - 34: Dexing Zhang and Samuel Yeung Shan Wong: Lifestyle - 35: William Gilmore, Katherine Brown, and Ian Gilmore: Prevention approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm - 36: Patricia Conrod and Olive Mukamana: Prevention of drug addiction - 37: Joseph Lau, Jinghua Li, Rui She, and Yoo Na Kim: Implications of the global mental health and HIV syndemic on HIV prevention and care - 38: Lakshmi Vijayakumar and Morton Silverman: Suicide and the prevention of suicidal behaviours - 39: Danuta Wasserman, Miriam Iosue, and Vladimir Carli: Suicidal behaviour among adolescents: Risk and protective factors and universal evidence-based suicide prevention programmes - Section 4: Interventions: Types and places - 40: Stephen Scott: Parenting skills and promotion of mental health over the lifespan - 41: Philip Boyce, Megan Galbally, and Alain Gregoire: Pregnancy: The earliest opportunity for prevention and early intervention for mental disorders - 42: Katherine Weare: Promoting mental health and well-being: What can schools do? - 43: David J. Castle, Ana Lusicic, and Melissa Petrakis: Early intervention in psychiatry - 44: Petra C. Gronholm, Claire Henderson, Tanya Deb, and Graham Thornicroft: Anti-stigma interventions: Theory and evidence - 45: Susan L. Fletcher, Sandra K. Davidson, and Jane M. Gunn: Managing stress - 46: Roger M. K. Ng and Che Kin Lee: Psychological intervention as a measure for promoting public mental health: Is it a white elephant? - 47: Ursula Werneke and Ingvar A. Bergdahl: Diet, environment, and mental health - 48: Mirai Chatterjee: Mental health and its social determinants: Some experiences of the Self-Employed Women s Association (SEWA) in India - 49: Carmen Wong, Wai Ching Ng, Hua Zhong, and Anne Scully Hill: Interpersonal violence - 50: T. A. Supraja, D. Padmavathy, and Prabha Chandra: Poverty and interpersonal violence - 51: Marguerite Regan, Jenny Edwards, and Iris Elliott: NGOs and mental health - 52: Kamaldeep Bhui: Public health and terrorism - 53: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Resilience and wellbeing - 54: Christopher C. H. Cook and Nathan H. White: Resilience and the role of spirituality - 55: Annisa Lee and Stephan Hyeonjun Stiller: Innovations in the area of social media - 56: Maryann Waugh, Matthew Mishkind, and Jay H. Shore: Telemental health: A public mental health perspective - 57: Laura Shields, Soumitra Pathare, Pallavi Karnatak, and Keshav Desiraju: Policy and public mental health in low and middle income countries - 58: Sarah Stewart-Brown: Managing research and evaluation for public mental health - 59: David M. Ndetei, Christine W. Musyimi, Erick S. Nandoya, Lydia Matoke, and Victoria N. Mutiso: Working with traditional healers to reduce mental health treatment gap in low and middle income countries - Section 5: Conclusions - 60: Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui, Samuel Yeung Shan Wong, and Stephen Gilman: Conclusion