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Severe Mental Illnesses: Training And Education, Amresh Srivastava
Severe Mental Illnesses: Training And Education, Amresh Srivastava
Psychiatry Publications
Amresh Srivastava
MD,MRCPsych,FRCPC
Associate Professore of Psychiatry
Western University
London.ON
Severe Mental Illnesses: Training and Education
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About 4% patients in the community suffer from severe mental illness and about 16% from ‘any mental disorder’
Maximum financial and human resource allocations for mental health is consumed in managing severe mental disorders, leaving very little for treatment of early phase of illness and for developing preventive program.
All of us, psychiatrists, family physicians, other mental health professionals like, nurse, psychologists, socal workers, occupational therapists, counsellors, and members of advocacy groups and mental health organisations, face the challenge for managing patients who …