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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.
`The book will be of interest, and easily read by anyone working
with a multi-ethnic clientele and should be required reading for
anyone in the field of mental health' -Journal of the Canadian
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry `I recommend this book
as an important addition to the literature on mental health and on
racism...this is a book well worth readying and studying.' -
Transcultural Psychiatry Sept 2005 `Kam Bhui makes a valuable and
important contribution to our understanding of culture and
ethnicity. I strongly advise all psychiatrists, both consultants
and trainees, to read this book and to respond honestly to the
challenges it presents. It demonstrates the value of political and
social analyses of our work in the training of psychiatrists. But
for me, its greatest value is in the way it shows how we must
acknowledge the influence of our own histories and cultural
backgrounds on the way we approach our work and those we struggle
to help. The Other will cease to be an Other only when we accept
the Other in ourselves.' -British Journal of Psychiatry `This is a
refreshing addition to the growing body of literature on racism and
mental health. Bhui draws together personal and professional
experiences with current research evidence to provide a cogent
analysis of the relationship between racism and mental health from
both theoretical and experiential perspectives. The particular
strength of this model is that it is anchored in the lived
experiences of black service users...[It] should be a call to
action for all mental health practitioners.' -Mental Health today
`The book provides an excellent illustration of the extent of
institutional racism, not just in mental health, but within the NHS
as a whole and should be widely used particularly in education
institutions and medical schools.' - community practitioner This
thought-provoking book investigates the impact of racism (both
conscious and unconscious) in mental health settings, covering
individual clinical encounters and the broader picture of service
provision. The authors offer insights into manifestations of racism
in contemporary Britain; racial and cultural identity and the
significance of these in psychotherapy; and the inequalities in
provision of mental health services to minority ethnic communities.
They consider the problems of racism and mental health, not in
isolation but in the larger context of cultural difference and
social inequalities, and also on the level of human relationships.
Bringing together the experiences of mental health professionals
and incorporating a service user's perspective, this book provides
many practical strategies for addressing racism and dealing with
its effects in psychiatric work, and will prove useful and
informative to practitioners in many areas of mental health work.
Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation,
perpetuation and treatment of patients suffering with mental
illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly
being recognised, and the misconceptions that can occur as a result
of cultural differences can lead to misdiagnoses, under or
over-diagnosis. This second edition of the Textbook of Cultural
Psychiatry has been completely updated with additional new chapters
on globalisation and mental health, social media and
tele-psychiatry. Written by world-leading experts in the field,
this new edition provides a framework for the provision of mental
health care in an increasingly globalised world. The first edition
of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry was commended in the BMA
Book Awards in 2008 and was the recipient of the 2012 Creative
Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and
Culture.
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