Migrant psychiatry is an evolving subdiscipline within cultural
psychiatry that deals with the impact of migration on the mental
health of those who have migrated and those who work with these
groups and provide services to them. Stress related to migration
affects migrants and their extended families either directly or
indirectly. The process of migration is not just a phase, but leads
on to a series of adjustments, including acculturation, which may
occur across generations. Factors such as changes in diet,
attitudes and beliefs, and overall adjustment are important in
settling down and making the individuals feel secure. This period
of adjustment will depend upon the individual migrant's
pre-migration experiences, migration process and post-migration
experiences, but also upon an individual's personality, social
support and emotional response to migration. Socio-demographic
factors, such as age, gender, educational, and economic status will
all play a role in post-migration adjustment. In order to
understand the impact on individuals, not only the type of
migration and different stressors, but also the types of
psychological mechanisms at a personal level and the resources and
processes at a societal level need to be explored. Despite the
number of refugees and asylum seekers around the world increasing
at an astonishing rate, the mental health needs of migrants are
often ignored by policy makers and clinicians. The Oxford Textbook
of Migrant Psychiatry is designed to serve as the comprehensive
reference resource on the mental health of migrants, bringing
together both theoretical and practical aspects of the mental
health needs of refugees and asylum seekers for researchers and
professionals. Individual chapters summarise theoretical constructs
related to theories of migration, the impact of migration on mental
health and adjustment, collective trauma, individual identity and
diagnostic fallacies. The book also covers the practical aspects of
patient management including cultural factors,
ethnopsychopharmacology, therapeutic interaction and therapeutic
expectation, and psychotherapy. Finally, the book will examine
special clinical problems and special patient groups. Part of the
authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, this resource
will serve as an essential reference for psychiatrists, mental
health professionals, general practitioners/primary care
physicians, social workers, policy makers and voluntary agencies
dealing with refugees and asylum seekers.
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