This book is a fully updated and expanded edition that adds results, experiences, and lessons learned since the first edition was published. Various articles and books have been published on global mental health, but few of them thoroughly cover the clinical, research, innovation, and social implications as they pertain to psychiatry; often, only one of these aspects is covered. A comprehensive text that can keep pace with the rapidly evolving literature grows more and more valuable each day as clinicians struggle to piece together the changes around the world that leave open the possibility for improved outcomes in care. This edition builds on the first to answer this need.

Since the first edition was published, the complex field of global mental health has expanded. Institutions, NGOs, states and countries have participated in bilateral and other arrangements within the global space. During this period the world witnessed a dramatic and significant pandemic, COVID-19. In the previous edition many of the contributors gave examples of projects and research in their infancy. Therefore, this volume provides information based on the experiences of the last four years. The contributors review their previous experiences, provide results, and express the lessons they have learned since the initiation of their studies or interventions. New topics covered in this edition include, amongst others, psychedelics, stigma and disability, climate change and environmentalism, immigration and refugee problems, and artificial intelligence.

Innovations in Global Mental Health, Second Edition is the ultimate resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, primary care physicians, hospitalists, policy makers, and all medical professionals at the forefront of global mental health and its implications for the future.

Serves as a trustworthy reference for emerging challenges in global mental health Describes the historical background of globalization and global mental health Thoroughly covers the clinical, research, innovation, and social implications of global mental health

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Samuel O. Okpaku M.D., Ph.D. is the President and Founder of the Center for Health, Culture, and Society in Nashville, Tennessee. He has an M.D. from Edinburgh University Medical School in Scotland and a Ph.D. in Social Research and Welfare from Brandeis University. He also has training and background in Internal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Canada, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, and he is a Lifetime Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He has been on the faculty at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy. He was also Chairman and Professor of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College. He is a Past President of the Black Psychiatrists of America. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. His research interests have included depression, psychotherapy, drug abuse, disability reduction, participation in SSI and SSDI programs, and cultural psychiatry. He is widely published in these areas. His current interest is in global mental health. His publications in this area include: Mental Health in Africa and America Today, Clinical Methods in Transcultural Psychiatry, Essentials of Global Mental Health, and Innovations in Global Mental Health. His current project is a Multidisciplinary Training Handbook on Global Mental Health. He has served on the Board of Health (19962011) and was a Secretary of the Metro Nashville Board of Health (20042011). He is the recipient of several awards both national and international. His hobbies include music and traveling.

Since the publication of the 1st edition this editor has given webinars and lectures both nationally and internationally on the principal topic of Reflections on Global Mental Health: Ethical and Humanitarian Considerations.

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The Challenges and Opportunities for Global Mental Health.- Innovations and a Climate of Creativity in Mental Healthcare Systems.- Role of the United Nations in Global Mental Health.- Evidence for Action: Stimulating Research to Address the Global Mental Health Treatment Gap.- Making Culture and Mental Health Count: Contributions of the King Edward Memorial Hospital Research Centre, Pune.- Capacity Building for a Mental Health System of Care in Liberia.- Providing Mental Health Care in Primary Care Centers in LMICs.- Performing Urbanity Through Carnival on the Streets of Rio de Janeiro: Practical Approaches for Reducing Stigmatization of the Mad in Cities.- Lessons from Research Innovations in Depression and HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Eating Disorders (ED), a Global Epidemic, De-stigmatizing ED to Save Lives.- Rethinking Radicalization Leading to Violence as a Global Health Issue.- Mental Health System Reform in Brazil: Innovation and Challenges for Sustainability.- Challenges in Health Workforce Planning: Caring for a Healthy Health Workforce.- Ethics and Humanitarianism in Global Mental Health.- Mental Health Reform in Peru: Innovations, Challenges, and Sustainability.- From Innovation to Scale: Policy Engagement for Enhanced Community-Based Depression Care in Vietnam.- Mental Health Policy, System, and Services in China.- Mental Health Care in Nomadic Populations: The Case of Kenya.- Indigenous Homelessness and Traditional Knowledges.- Mental Health Care in Saudi Arabia.- Innovating Mental Health Care for Migrants in the Netherlands.- Using Mobile Mental Health Clinics to Increase Access to Mental Health Care in Rural Africa.- Attempts to Achieve Parity and Coverage in Chile in Mental Health.- Delivering Universal Health: A Collaborative Approach.- Data Mining, Data Analytics, and Bioinformatics.- Intelligent Conversational Agents in Global Health.- The Use of Mobile Phones for Frontline Health-Care Workers to Manage Depression.- Challenges and Opportunities in Delivering Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Navigating E-Mental Health.- WHO-mhGAP, MHPSS, IHME, and Other Internet Resources to Address the Global Burden of Mental Health.- Role of Technology Helping Epilepsy Diagnosis in the Developing World Through TeleEEG.- The Potential of Health Information Technologies to Transform Mental Health Care for Young People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.- Primary Prevention of Sexual Violence Using Innovative Technologies.- Global Mental Health and Psychiatry Education.- From Transcultural Psychiatry to Global Mental Health: The Development of a Global Mental Health Program at the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia.- Connections at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Hawaii's Experiences with Video Teleconferencing for Education, Collaboration, and Services.- Innovation in Medical Education: A Training Partnership in Ghana.- Experience from Ghana: Using the Diaspora Resources to Address Local Gaps and Build on Human Resource Capacity.- Innovations in Global Mental Health.- Developing a Curriculum in Global Mental Health.- Setting Up Community Mental Health.- Examining African Traditional Health Care.- The Jamaican LMIC Challenge to the Biopsychosocial Global Mental Health Model of Western Psychiatry.- Setting Up School Mental Health Program.- African Traditional Medicine and Potential Role for Mental Health.- Traditional Healers and Global Mental Health.- Proactive Telehealth Using Appreciative Curiosity: Innovations from COVID-19.- Step-Wise Development of Primary Care and Community-Based Mental Health Care in a Low-Resource Setting.- Therapeutic Pluralism and the Process of Change.- New Frontiers in Mental Health.- Innovative Frameworks of Resilience Promotion, Advocacy, and Human Rights in LMIC Child Mental Health.- …