Elements of Culture and Mental Health

Herausgeber: Bhui, Kamaldeep

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is not enough for mental health professionals to make best use of the evidence base; they must also ensure that interventions are culturally appropriate, acceptable and ethical. This is a very complex task - to work with culturally diverse populations who may not expect the same sort of treatments or interventions or even assessment processes as the cultural majority. How can professionals work confidently with people from diverse cultural backgrounds, engage with the emotional and professional demands, and be more creative about how to improve the quality of care and the take up of care? This short volume, developed by service users, practitioners, teachers and researchers, aims to address this issue. Each chapter is a concise, thought-provoking, engaging and creative essay about a clinical scenario that is central to improving the quality of care to culturally diverse populations. The scenarios are common, and the essays set out beautifully some of the obstacles to improving care, dilemmas facing the clinician, and how they might be overcome.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 175g
• ISBN-13: 9781908020499
• ISBN-10: 1908020490
• Artikelnr.: 36938513

Autorenporträt

About the editor: Kamaldeep Bhui is Professor of Psychiatry at Barts & The London School of Medicine, Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Desire and commitment: essential ingredients to learn about
cultural and mental illness; 1. Is trauma-focused therapy helpful for
survivors of war and conflict?; 2. Will ethnopsychopharmacology lead to
changes in clinical practice?; 3. Does cognitive-behavioural therapy work
in people with very different cultural orientations and backgrounds?; 4.
Can you do meaningful cognitive-behavioural therapy with an interpreter?;
5. Are specific psychotherapeutic orientations indicated with specific
ethnic minority groups?; 6. Can psychotherapeutic interventions overcome
epistemic difference?; 7. The role of culture and difference in evaluation,
assessment, and diagnosis; 8. Necessary and sufficient competencies for
intercultural work; 9. The validity of existing Eurocentric diagnostic
categories; 10. What are the limitations and benefits of the cultural
formulation in intercultural work?; 11. Barriers to the intercultural and
interracial therapeutic relationship and how to overcome them; 12. How does
intercultural interpretation work in the mental health setting?; 13. Do the
power relations inherent in medical systems help or hinder in
cross-cultural psychiatry?; 14. Recovery and well-being: a paradigm for
care; 15. Social perspectives on diagnosis; 16. Public mental health and
inequalities; 17. Does psychotherapy work through an interpreter?; 18. Can
race and racism be recognised and acknowledged in the transference in the
therapeutic setting without it becoming a source of therapeutic impasse?;
19. Cultural competence: models, measures and movements; 20. Spirituality
and mental health.