CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, an expanded focus for public health in Africa

: Tomlinson (M.), Hanlon (C.) & Stevenson (A.) eds.

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338pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2018

 

Contributions include:
"Ushering in the Sustainable Development Goals" by Anne Stevenson, Mark Tomlinson, Xanthe Hunt and Charlotte Hanlon
"Mental Health Policy in Africa: gaps, needs and priorities for children and adolescents" by Crick Lund
"Culture and Attachment in Africa" by Hiltrud Otto
"Creation of Culturally Appropriate Development Assessment Tools for Rural Africa" by Melissa Gladstone
"Resilience in Children and Adolescents" by Sharain Suliman, Leigh van den Heuvel and Soraya Seedat.

Mark Tomlinson is Professor in the Department of Psychology and co-Director of the Institute for Child and Family Health at Stellenbosch University. He is also Honorary Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town.
Charlotte Hanlon is Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and Clinical Senior Lecturer, Centre for Global Mental Health, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College, London.
Anne Stevenson is the Programme Director of the Neuropsychiatric Genetics in African Populations (NeuroGAP) Psychosis Project, and is based at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute.