Mental Health in Public Health

Edited by Linda Cottler, MPH, PhD

American Psychopathological Association

Features essays from 'thought leaders' in public health psychiatry

Mental Health in Public Health

Edited by Linda Cottler, MPH, PhD

American Psychopathological Association

Description

In the past century there has been awareness of the importance of a global public health perspective in understanding the etiology, course and treatment of mental disorders. However, just recently there has been a focus on population science and with it an evidence-based call to improving public mental health in communities. Mental Health in Public Health synthesizes important topics in public health psychiatry that were discussed at the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) meeting in 2010. The book, like the APPA meeting, aims to bring advanced knowledge of the social and environmental risk factors for psychiatric disorders, as well as ideas for preventing them. Chapters are written by experts from around the world and include such public health concerns as Veteran's mental health, mental health disparities among minorities, causes of addictions, and mortality of these disorders.

Mental Health in Public Health

Edited by Linda Cottler, MPH, PhD

American Psychopathological Association

Mental Health Disparities: Populations at Risk
1.) Closing the Treatment Gap: A Global Health Perspective
Vikram Patel, Mirja Koschorke and Martin Prince

2.) Addressing Addiction and High Risk Behaviors Using the Integrated Public Health and Public Safety Approach
Wilson M. Compton and Redonna K. Chandler

3.) Mental Health Disparities among Latinos, the Fastest Growing Population in the US
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola and Linda Ziegahn

4.) Global Initiatives for HIV/AIDS and Programs Promoting Global Access to Mental Health Care: Putting Mental Health into Public Health
Francine Cournos, Karen McKinnon and Milton Wainberg

Conditional Disorders and the Public's Mental Health

5.) Veterans' Mental Health: The Effects of War
Michael J. Lyons, Margo Genderson and Michael D. Grant

6.) Assessing the Link Between Disaster Exposure and Mental Illness
Carol S. North

7.) Addiction to Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex, and Technology: Shared Causal Mechanisms?
Mark S. Gold, Lisa J. Merlo, Adrie W. Bruijnzeel, Anna Roytberg and Michael Herkov

The Public's Mental Health from Youth to Older Age: Changing Landscapes or Stable Patterns?

8.) Personality Pathology, Health, and Social Adjustment in Later Life
Thomas F. Oltmanns and Marci E.J. Gleason

9.) Mortality from Common Mental Disorders and Medical Conditions
William W. Eaton, Martha Bruce, Alden L. Gross, O. Joseph Bienvenu, Rosa Crum and Linda B. Cottler

10.) Child Mental Health: Status of the Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Prevention
John N. Constantino

Issues that Shape the Debate about Public Mental Health

11.) Stigma of Mental Illness: A Global View
Norman Sartorius

12.) The Social Determinants of Mental Health
Sandro Galea and Maria Steenland

13.) HealthStreet: A Community Based Approach to Include Mental Health in Public Health Research
Linda B. Cottler, Catina Callahan O'Leary, Catherine W. Striley

14.) Presidential Perspectives
Alfred M. Freedman, Max Fink, Donald F. Klein, Murray Alpert, James E. Barrett, David L. Dunner, Katherine A. Halmi, Elliot S. Gershon, C. Robert Cloninger, Bruce P. Dohrenwend, David S. Janowsky, Ellen Frank, Judith L. Rapoport, Myrna M. Weissman, John E. Helzer, Charles F. Zorumski, William W. Eaton, Ming T. Tsuang, J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr, James J. Hudziak, Patrick E. Shrout, Darrel A. Regier, Linda B. Cottler

Index

Mental Health in Public Health

Edited by Linda Cottler, MPH, PhD

American Psychopathological Association

Author Information

Linda B.Cottler, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She is Director of the EPRG, the Master of Psychiatric Epidemiology (MPE) program as well as the WU CTSA Center for Community Based Research., which is home to HealthStreet. Dr. Cottler has appointments in Occupational Therapy and Anthropology at Washington University and in Psychiatry at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Contributors:

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD
Center for Reducing Health Disparities; and
Clinical and Translational Science Center
School of Medicine
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA

O. Joseph Bienvenu, MD, PhD
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Martha L. Bruce, PhD, MPH
Weill Cornell Medical College
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY

Adrie W. Bruijnzeel , PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Catina Callahan O'Leary, PhD, MSW
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Redonna K. Chandler, PhD
Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse; and
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

Wilson M. Compton, MD, MPE
Division of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research
National Institute on Drug Abuse; and
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD

John N. Constantino, MD
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Linda B. Cottler, PhD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Francine Cournos, MD
Department of Psychiatry
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Columbia University
New York, NY

Rosa Crum, MD, MHS
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD

William W. Eaton, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD

Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Margo Genderson
Department of Psychology
Boston University
Boston, MA

Marci E.J. Gleason, PhD
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX

Mark S. Gold, MD
Department of Psychiatry
McKnight Brain Institute
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Michael D. Grant, PhD
Department of Psychology
Boston University
Boston, MA

Alden L. Gross, MHS
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD

Michael Herkov, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Mirja Koschorke, MRCPsych
Centre for Global Mental Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Michael J. Lyons, PhD
Department of Psychology
Boston University
Boston, MA

Karen McKinnon, MA
Department of Psychiatry
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Columbia University
New York, NY

Lisa J. Merlo, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Carol S. North, MD, MPE
VA North Texas Health Care System; and
Department of Psychiatry and Surgery/Division of Emergency Medicine
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Thomas F. Oltmanns, PhD
Department of Psychology
Washington University
St. Louis, MO

Vikram Patel, MSc, MRCPsych, PhD, FMedSci
Centre for Global Mental Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Martin Prince, MSc, FRCPsych
Centre for Global Mental Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, UK

Anna Roytberg, ScB
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

Norman Sartorius, MD, PhD
Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes
Geneva, Swtizerland

Maria Steenland, MPH
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Catherine W. Striley, PhD, MSW, MPE
Epidemiology and Prevention Research Group
Department of Psychiatry
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Milton Wainberg, MD
Department of Psychiatry
New York State Psychiatric Institute
Columbia University
New York, NY

Linda Ziegahn, PhD
Center for Reducing Health Disparities; and
Clinical and Translational Science Center
School of Medicine
University of California, Davis
Sacramento, CA

Mental Health in Public Health

Edited by Linda Cottler, MPH, PhD

American Psychopathological Association

Reviews and Awards

"This wide-ranging collection of papers illuminates many aspects of mental health as a public health concern. Whether readers' interest is childhood or old age, the United States or the developing world, depression or schizophrenia, they will find something to interest and inform them. Particularly insightful are the "Presidential Perspectives" in which past presidents of APPA muse on what the future holds for psychiatry, in the context of public health. Medical education in the United States largely ignores public health. This book can help to open clinicians' eyes to the gains that can be made by taking a public health approach to some of the seemingly intractable problems of mental disorders worldwide." --- E. Jane Costello, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham NC

"Mental Health in Public Health is two books in one. Part 1 is a compilation of thoughtful chapters demonstrating the critical role that mental health plays in the public health of populations around the world. Each of the chapters is a variation and exposition on the theme that mental health and public health are two sides of the same coin. The value of this concept is shown from childhood to old age, from the healthy to the medically unhealthy, from populations living in peace to those exposed to the horrors of war, from low income populations and countries to wealthy populations and countries." -- Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Putnam Hall-South Campus, Stony Brook, NY