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After a brief discussion of Hong Kong's colonial period, the author explores its constitutional journey from British crown colony to Special Adminstrative Region (SAR) of the PRC and Hong Kong's long decolonization process. He discusses the establishment of "one country two systems" in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law for Hong Kong promulgated by the National People's Congress of the PRC in April 1990. (DÜI-Sen)

Vision / Goh Yen-Li -- Mental Health - GP Partnership Programme (MH-GPPP) : Process, Planning and Implementation / Gina Teo -- Case Management / Junie Seah and Margaret Hendriks -- Managing GP Engagement : Strategies and Lessons Learnt / Alvin Lum -- GP Training and Education in Mental Health / Chiam Peak Chiang, Alvin Lum, and Nirhana Japar -- Research : An Explorative Journey Ahead / Alvin Lum -- GP Perspectives : Managing Patients with Mental Illness in the Community / Mark Yap, Kwek Thiam Soo, Grace Cheng, Rodney Lim, and Gina Teo -- MH-GP Partnership Programme and Beyond : Working with the Community to Sustain Mental Healthcare / Wei Ker-Chiah, Jayaramam Hariram, Jared Ng and Chan Mei Chern

"This book is a compilation by local mental health experts on the development of mental health services in Singapore after 1993. The year was the end point of an earlier book "Till the Break of Dawn — A History of Mental Health Services in Singapore (1841–1993)" that had been written on the history of psychiatry."--

An easy read with a "how-to" intent, this book provides the insights and process of a practical and viable community mental health team. The authors of the book have produced a book which is as close an account to the reality of making the REACH team a value add to the mental wellness of students. This is the first book in Singapore that details the synergy of the various levels of decision making to enable a child and adolescent community mental health team to take shape, allowing hospital staff to reach students and service providers in primary care

Aims: This study explored gender differences in life stressors of children and adolescents who died by suicide. Three main classes of life stressors have been identified by previous research to be significant risk factors for suicide in children and adolescents: interpersonal/relationship problems, family problems, and academic/school problems.Methods: The sample consisted of 156 (89 males and 67 females) completed child and adolescent suicides in Singapore from 1995 to 2003. The age of these individuals ranged from 10 to 19 years with a mean age of 16.49 (SD = 2.59).Results: Significantly more females were found to have had interpersonal/relationship problems as recent life stressors compared with males. No gender differences were found for the other two life stressors, family problems and academic/school problems. In addition, among the three life stressors studied, only interpersonal/relationship problems emerged as a significant predictor of female child and adolescent suicide.Conclusions: Consistent with previous research literature, these findings contribute to a growing literature documenting the relatively larger impact of relational life stressors on child and adolescent female suicidality. Implications for suicide intervention and prevention, especially among young females, were discussed.

People with mental illness may be unable to provide critical input about the care they wish to receive during a psychiatric crisis because of altered mental states. It is therefore imperative that clinicians seek to understand service users' wishes for care while they are well and able to provide meaningful input into the discussion. Achieving such an end may be done by discussing and completing a psychiatric advance directive. However, very few Asian countries have legislation that supports such advance directives. The present article seeks to give physicians more information about advance psychiatric directives and the potential role they could play to improve the healthcare provided in Asia to people at risk of losing capacity due to a mental illness. The degree to which mental health legislation supports psychiatric advance directives is documented for each country of South East Asia and Eastern Asia.