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School Health Promotion: Case Studies from India offers evidence-based insights and recommendations to those engaged in addressing the social determinants of health at the school level. The book provides an overview of school health promotion and adolescent health in India, and presents case studies of four programmes: SHAPE, UDAAN, Drishti and Prayatna. Together, these programmes cover seven states of India, and are characterised by different types of human ...
The school years tend to be the healthiest period of life, but it is also when mental health problems often begin or become more apparent, due in part to the challenges posed by unique educational and socialization expectations and physical and psychological developmental changes. The majority of youth negotiate these challenges well, drawing upon a range of resources to see them through: innate reserves of resilience, healthy coping strategies and supportive ...
Comprehensive and informative, this book can be used as supplementary reading for post-graduate courses in social work and clinical psychology, while it will also be of interest to psychiatrists, social workers, national and international public health organisations, voluntary agencies and public health professionals.
This important volume describes the work of voluntary agencies in the field of mental health with the explicit objectives of documenting innovative achievements, examining the issues involved, and determining their success and viability in the Indian setting. This documentation of NGO initiatives amply demonstrates that the voluntary movement is not a sporadic or isolated phenomenon, but an enduring and growing force playing a key role in the mission to achieve ...