Unmet Need in Psychiatry : Problems, Resources, Responses (Hardcover)

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Unmet Need: Defining the Problem: 1. Assessing needs for psychiatric services Norman Sartorius; 2. Unmet need: a challenge for governments Harvey Whiteford; 3. Meeting the unmet need with disease management Gavin Andrews; Part II. Unmet Need: General Problems and Solutions: Introduction Gavin Andrews; 4. The epidemiology of mental disorder treatment need: community estimates of 'medical necessity' Darrel A. Regier, William E. Narrow, Agnes Rupp, Donald S. Rae and Charles T. Kaelber; 5. Some considerations in making resource allocation decisions for the treatment of psychiatric disorders Ronald C. Kessler; 6. The need for psychiatric treatment in the general population Paul Bebbington; 7. Comparing data on mental health service use between countries Margarita Alegria, Ronald C. Kessler, Rob Bijl, Elizabeth Lin, Steven G. Heeringa, David T. Takeuchi and Bodhan Kolody; 8. The challenges of meeting the unmet need for treatment: economic perspectives Agnes Rupp and Helen Lapsley; 9. Unmet need for prevention Beverley Raphael; 10. Meeting unmet needs: can evidence-based approaches help? Harold Alan Pincus and Deborah A. Zarin; 11. Unmet need for management of mental disorders in primary care T. Bedirhan Ustun; 12. Is complementary medicine filling needs that could be met by orthodox medicine? John E. Cooper; Part III. Unmet Need: People with Specific Disorders: Introduction Gavin Andrews; 13. The unmet needs of people suffering from schizophrenia Graham Thornicroft, Sonia Johnson, Morven Leese and Mike Slade; 14. The early course of schizophrenia: new concepts for intervention Heinz Hafner and Kurt Maurer; 15. Unmet need in depression: varying perspectives on need Kay Wilhelm and Elizabeth Lin; 16. Unmet need following serious suicide attempt: follow-up of 302 individuals for 30 months Annette Beautrais, Peter Joyce and Roger Mulder; 17. Met and unmet need for interventions in community cases with anxiety disorders Hans-Ulrich Wittchen; 18. The unmet need for treatment in panic disorder and social phobia Caroline Hunt; 19. Alcohol-use disorders: who should be treated and how? Wayne Hall and Maree Teesson; 20. Putting epidemiology and public health in needs assessment: drug dependence and beyond James C. Anthony; 21. Why are somatoform disorders so poorly recognized and treated? Ian Hickie, Rene G. Pols, Annette Koschera and Tracey Davenport; Part IV. Unmet Need: Specific Issues: Introduction Scott Henderson; 22. Unmet need in mental health service delivery: children and adolescents Michael Sawyer and George Patton; 23. Assessing psychopathology among children aged four to eight Linda Cottler, Wendy Reich, Kathy Rourke, Renee M. Cunningham-Williams and Wilson M. Compton; 24. Unmet need in indigenous mental health: where to start? Ernest Hunter; 25. Health systems research: a pragmatic model for meeting mental health needs in low-income countries Vikram Patel; 26. Disablement associated with chronic psychosis as seen by two groups of key informants: patients and mental health professionals Charles B. Pull, Arnaud Sztantics, Steve Muller, Jean Marc Cloos and Jean Reggers; 27. The assessment of perceived need Graham Meadows, Ellie Fossey, Carol Harvey and Philip Burgess; 28. Public knowledge of and attitudes to mental disorders: a limiting factor in the optimal use of treatment services Anthony F. Jorm, Mattias Angermeyer and Heinz Katschnig; Part V. Unmet Need: Conclusion: 29. A personal overview John R. M. Copeland; 30. Conclusion: the central issues Scott Henderson; Index.