Based on a recently completed project of cultural consultation
in Montreal, Cultural Consultation presents a model of
multicultural and applicable health care. This model used
clinicians and consultants to provide in-depth assessment,
treatment planning, and limited interventions in consultation with
frontline primary care and mental health practitioners working with
immigrants, refugees, and members of indigenous and ethnocultural
communities. Evaluation of the service has demonstrated that
focused interventions by consultants familiar with patients'
cultural backgrounds could improve the relationship between the
patient and the primary clinician.
This volume presents models for intercultural work in psychiatry
and psychology in primary care, general hospital and specialty
mental health settings. The editors highlight crucial topics such
as:
- Discussing the social context of intercultural mental health
care, conceptual models of the role of culture in psychopathology
and healing, and the development of a cultural consultation service
and a specialized cultural psychiatric service
- Examining the process of intercultural work more closely with
particular emphasis oto strategies of consultation, the identity of
the clinician, the ways in which gender and culture position the
clinician, and and interaction of the consultant with family
systems and larger institutions
- Highlighting special situations that may place specific
demands on the clinician: working with refugees and survivors of
torture or political violence, with separated families, and with
patients with psychotic episodes
This book is of valuable use to mental health practitioners who
are working in multidisciplinary settings who seek to understand
cultural difference in complex cases. Psychiatrists, psychologists,
social workers, nurse practitioners, primary care providers and
trainees in these disciplines will make thorough use of the
material covered in this text.
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