Mental Health, Race and Culture: Third Edition

ISBN-13: 9780230212718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str.

Suman Fernando

Opis

This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally.

Spis treści

Introduction  PART 1: THEORY AND TRADITION Race and Culture; Ethnicity and Identity Traditional Approaches to Mental Health Background and Culture of Psychiatry Racism in Psychiatry Changing Discourse in Mental Health Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress; Suffering and Violence PART II: PRACTICE AND INNOVATION Application of Psychiatry: Bias and Imperialism Asian and African 'Therapy' for Mental Health Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries Mental Health of Refugees in High Income Countries Prospects for Plurality in Therapies for Mental Health  Mental Health for All

O autorze

SUMAN FERNANDO is Visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, UK,and Senior Lecturer atthe European Centre for Migration and Social Care (MASC), University of Kent, UK.He was a consultant psychiatrist for over twenty years in the National Health Service and is involved in non-governmentalorganisations in the UK and abroad. He has written and lectured widely on mental health development.

Blurb

This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the traditional ideas that inform practice in clinical psychology and psychiatry in order to promote new and alternative ways of thinking.

Covering both theoretical perspectives and practical implications, this insightful text discusses perceptions of ethnicity and identity, compares practices around the world and looks at racism in mental health services. Topics new to the third edition include:
? Trauma and psychosocial support
? The new discourses in mental health of recovery, spirituality and well-being
? The mental health of refugees
? Specific developments in low-income countries, including Asia and Africa

This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of a seminal text offers students and practitioners alike a comprehensive and reliable study of both western and non-western psychiatry and mental health practices.