Includes bibliographical references and index.

The nature and scale of the global mental health challenge / Mirella Ruggeri, Graham Thornicroft, & David Goldberg -- Scaling up mental health care in resource poor settings / Shekhar Saxena, Benedetto Saraceno, and Justin Granstein -- Swings and roundabouts of community psychiatry : the UK fairground / Peter Tyrer -- Mental health services and recovery / Mike Slade ... [et al.] -- Implementing evidence-based treatments in routine mental health services / Antonio Lasalvia and Mirella Ruggeri -- The need for new models of care for people with severe mental illness in low- and middle-income countries / Ruben Alvarado ... [et al.] -- The role of primary care in low- and middle- income countries / David Goldberg, Graham Thornicroft and Nadja van Ginneken -- Meeting the challenge of physical co-morbidity and unhealthy lifestyles / Lorenzo Burti ... [et al.] -- Complex interventions in mental health services research : potential, limitations and challenges / Thomas Becker and Berndt Puschner -- The feasibility of applying the clinical staging paradigm to the care of people with mental disorders / Javier VaÌ,azquez-Bourgon ... [et al.] -- Work, mental health, and depression / Aart Schene ... [et al.] -- Training mental health providers in better communication with their patients / Christa Zimmermann ... [et al.] -- Making an economic case for community mental health services / Martin Knapp -- Incorporating local information and prior expert knowledge to evidence-informed mental health system research / Luis Salvador-Carulla ... [et al.] -- Innovative epidemiological methods / Francesco Amaddeo ... [et al.] -- Routine outcome monitoring : a tool to improve the quality of mental health care? / Sjord Sytema and Lian van der Krieke -- Psychiatric case registers : their use in the era of global mental health / Povl Munk-Jorgensen ... [et al.] -- Can brain imaging address psychosocial functioning and outcome in schizophrenia? / Marcella Bellani, Nicola Dusi, and Paolo Brambilla -- Statistics and the evaluation of the effects of randomised health care interventions / Graham Dunn -- Service user involvement in in mental health research / Diana Rose -- Psychotropic drug epidemiology and systematic reviews of randomised clinical trials : the roads travelled, the roads ahead / Andrea Cipriani, Michela NoseÌ€, and Corrado Barbui -- Services for people with severe mental disorders in high-income countries : from efficacy to effectiveness / Paul Bebbington, Elizabeth Kuipers & David Fowler -- The management of mental disorders in the primary care setting -- Matteo Balestrieri -- How many wobbly planks in the platform of mental health care? / Norman Sartorius -- Treatment gaps and knowledge gaps in mental health : schizophrenia as a global challenge / Assen Jablensky.