Global Mental Health Ethics

Chapter 1. Global Mental Health Through the Lens of Ethics.- Chapter 2. Historical Origins Of Global Mental Health.- Chapter 3. Global Mental Health Law and the Interface with Ethics.- Chapter 4. Ethical Considerations In Global Mental Health Research.- Chapter 5. Ethics & Humanitarianism in Global Mental Health.- Chapter 6. Counting what counts: Epidemiological Measurement and Generating Meaningful Findings.- Chapter 7. Where Ethics and Culture Collide:Ethical Dilemmas In Grief Work Following The Easter Sunday Attacks In Sri Lanka.- Chapter 8. Public Mental Health In Low Resourced Systems In Uganda:Lay Community Health Workers Context and Culture.- Chapter 9. Suicide Outside the Frame of Mental Illness: Exploring Suicidal Behaviors in Global & Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 10. Rethinking Idioms of Distress and Resilience in Anthropology and Global Mental Health .- Chapter 11. Epidemiologic Linkages Between Childhood Trauma, Health, and Healthcare.- Chapter 12. Coping With Addictive Opioid Markets.- Chapter 13. Resilience and Ethics in Post-Conflict Settings: Kwihangana,Living after Genocide-Rape, and Intergenerational Resilience in Post-Genocide Rwanda.- Chapter 14. Ethical Challenges of Nonmaleficence in Mental Health Care for Forcibly Displaced Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 15. Human Rights and Global Mental Health: Reducing the Use of Coercive Measures.- Chapter 16. Interrogations, Torture and Mental Health: Conceptualizing Exceptionalism.- Chapter 17. Mental Health under Occupation:  The dilemmas of "normalcy" in Palestine.- Chapter 18. LGBTQ Global Mental Health: Ethical Challenges and Clinical Considerations.- Chapter 19. The Ethics of Migration: Aspiring to Just Mercy in Immigration Policies.- Chapter 20. Restorative Justice: Principles, Practices and Possibilities.- Chapter 21. Community Response to Disaster:  Hurricanes in the Caribbean.- Chapter 22. Global Mental Health, Planetary Health, and the Ethical Co-Benefit.- Chapter 23.

Allen R. Dyer, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Vice-chair for Education
The George Washington University
2120 L Street NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20037 USA

Brandon Kohrt, MD, PhD
Charles and Sonia Akman Professor of Global Psychiatry
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Global Health
Director, Division of Global Mental Health
The George Washington University
2120 L St NW, Suite 600
Washington DC 20037

Philip J. Candilis, MD, DFAPA
Professor of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine
Director of Medical Affairs
Co-Director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Saint Elizabeths Hospital
DC Department of Behavioral Health
1100 Alabama Avenue SE
Washington DC 20032Dr. Dyer received MD and PhD degrees from Duke University, the PhD in ethics. He has served in a number of academic and administrative positions and in 2009 he moved to Washington, DC, to serve as Senior Health Advisor to the International Medical Corps, before joining the Global Mental Health program at the department of psychiatry at the George 500Washington University. He is the author of several books on professional ethics including Ethics and Psychiatry: Toward Professional Definition and (co-author with Laura Roberts) of A Concise Guide to Ethics in Mental Health Care as well as a cancer memoir, One More Mountain to Climb: What my Illness Taught me about Health. He has worked in disaster affected communities in China after the Great Sichuan Earthquake, Haiti, Japan after its Triple Disaster and particularly in Iraq to improve health infrastructure.