Elements of Culture and Mental Health Critical Questions for Clinicians - Bhui, Kamaldeep (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2013)
A; B; C; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword: Desire and commitment: essential ingredients to learning about culture and mental illness; Chapter 1 Is trauma-focused therapy helpful for survivors of war and conflict?; Chapter 2 Will ethnopsychopharmacology lead to changes in clinical practice?; Chapter 3 Does cognitive-behavioural therapy work for people with very different cultural orientations and backgrounds?; Chapter 4 Can you do meaningful cognitive-behavioural therapy through an interpreter?
Chapter 5 Are particular psychotherapeutic orientations indicated with specific ethnic minority groups?Chapter 6 Can psychotherapeutic interventions overcome epistemic difference?; Chapter 7 On the role of culture and difference in evaluation, assessment and diagnosis; Chapter 8 Necessary and sufficient competencies for intercultural work; Chapter 9 On the validity and usefulness of existing Eurocentric diagnostic categories; Chapter 10 Benefits and limitations of the cultural formulation in intercultural work
Chapter 11 Barriers to the intercultural therapeutic relationship and how to overcome themChapter 12 How does intercultural interpretation work in the mental health setting?; Chapter 13 Do the power relations inherent in medical systems help or hinder in cross-cultural psychiatry?; Chapter 14 Recovery and well-being: a paradigm for care; Chapter 15 Social perspectives on diagnosis; Chapter 16 Public mental health and inequalities; Chapter 17 Can you do psychotherapy through an interpreter?
Chapter 18 Can race and racism be acknowledged in the transference without it becoming a source of therapeutic impasse?Chapter 19 Cultural competence: models, measures and movements; Chapter 20 Religion, spirituality and mental health; Index
Keywords: Mental Disorders / ethnology; MEDICAL / Mental Health; MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General; Cultural psychiatry; Minorities / Mental health; Minorities / Mental health services; Medizin; Minderheit; Minorities -- Mental health services; Minorities -- Mental health