Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Developing Countries : NGO Innovations in India. Vikram Patel; R Thara

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Role of NGOs in Mental Health; Meeting the Challenges of Chronic Mental Illness; The Medico-Pastoral Association: Need-Based Initiatives by Volunteers in Mental Health Care; Rehabilitation Against the Odds: The RFS Experience; Paripurnata. A Hope for Wholeness; Developing Community-Based Services for Serious Mental Illness in a Rural Setting; Linking Disability, Women.s Empowerment and Poverty Reduction: The Samadhan Experience; Sangath. Families as Partners. The Research Society for the Care, Treatment and Training of Children in Need of Special CareAntarnad. A Dream in the Making; Gender, Violence, Sexuality and Health: Redefining the Matrix; Centring .Women. in Mental Health; Sneha. Working with Suicide; Suicidal Behaviour. A Window to Mental Health.: The Prerana Initiative; Meeting Challenges in the Field of Addiction; Toward A Humane Drug Policy and Programme; The Story of AMEND. The Association for the Mentally Disabled; Beacon of Hope for Victims of Dement.