Mental Health Publications

Mental health publications can be downloaded from the links below or ordered from the WHO bookshop. If you encounter difficulties in downloading any of these documents please contact us at mnh@who.int.

• WHO Book Shop

• Pharmacological treatment of mental disorders in primary health care
  This manual attempts to provide simple, adequate and evidence-based information to health care professionals in primary health care especially in low- and middle-income countries to be able to provide pharmacological treatment to persons with mental disorders.

• mhGAP Mental Health Gap Action Programme: Scaling up care for mental, neurological, and substance use disorders
  This document describes WHO's mental health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) aimed at scaling up services for mental, neurological and substance use disorders for countries especially with low- and middle-income.

• New joint WHO/Wonca report 'Integrating mental health into primary care - a global perspective'
  This report presents the justification for providing mental health services in primary care. It also provides advice on how to implement and scale-up primary care for mental health, and describes how a range of health systems have successfully undertaken this transformation.

• IASC Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings
  Initiated by WHO; these Inter-Agency Standing Committee Guidelines enable humanitarian actors to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people’s mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency.

LIST BY TOPIC

• Advocacy
• Ageing and Mental Health
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Evidence and Research
• Gender and Women's Mental Health
• Mental Health in Emergencies
• Neurological Disorders, including Epilepsy
• Policy and Services
• Schizophrenia
• Suicide Prevention
• WHO MIND
• Other topics