Elements of Culture and Mental Health: Critical Questions for Clinicians
Edited by
Kamaldeep Bhui
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.
- Covers common scenarios, faced by every
clinician
- Includes working with survivors of conflict;
working with interpreters
- Chapters are concise, but further reading is
signposted
Readership: All psychiatrists, especially those
with an interest in the affect of culture on mental health.
About the editor: Kamaldeep Bhui is Professor of
Psychiatry at Barts & The London School of Medicine, Queen
Mary, University of London.
Contents
| |
Foreword - Desire and commitment: essential ingredients to
learn about cultural and mental illness |
Kamaldeep Bhui |
| 1. |
Is trauma-focused
therapy helpful for survivors of war and conflict? |
Rachel
Tribe |
| 2. |
Will
ethnopsychopharmacology lead to changes in clinical practice? |
Faisil
Sethi |
| 3. |
Does
cognitive-behavioural therapy work in people with very different
cultural orientations and backgrounds? |
Shanaya
Rathod, Farooq Naeem and David Kingdom |
| 4. |
Can you do
meaningful cognitive–behavioural therapy with an interpreter? |
Shanaya Rathod
and Farooq Naeem |
| 5. |
Are specific
psychotherapeutic orientations indicated with specific ethnic
minority groups? |
Adil
Qureshi |
| 6. |
Can
psychotherapeutic interventions overcome epistemic difference? |
Francisco José
Eiroá-Orosa |
| 7. |
The role of
culture and difference in evaluation, assessment, and
diagnosis |
Adil
Qureshi |
| 8. |
Necessary and
sufficient competencies for intercultural work |
Hilda-Wara
Revollo |
| 9. |
The validity of
existing Eurocentric diagnostic categories |
Hilda-Wara
Revollo & Jorge Atala-Delgado |
| 10. |
What are the
limitations and benefits of the cultural formulation in
intercultural work? |
Francisco
Collazos, Marcos González and Adil Qureshi |
| 11. |
Barriers to the
intercultural and interracial therapeutic relationship and how to
overcome them |
Adil Qureshi
and Rachel Tribe |
| 12. |
How does
intercultural interpretation work in the mental health
setting? |
Rachel
Tribe |
| 13. |
Do the power
relations inherent in medical systems help or hinder in
cross-cultural psychiatry? |
Suman
Fernando, Peter Ferns and Premila Trivedi |
| 14. |
Recovery and
well-being: a paradigm for care |
Premila
Trivedi, Suman Fernando and Peter Ferns |
| 15. |
Social
perspectives on diagnosis |
Suman Fernando
and Peter Ferns |
| 16. |
Public mental
health and inequalities |
Kamaldeep
Bhui |
| 17. |
Does psychotherapy
work through an interpreter? |
Kamaldeep
Bhui |
| 18. |
Can race and
racism be recognised and acknowledged in the transference in the
therapeutic setting without it becoming a source of therapeutic
impasse? |
Kamaldeep
Bhui |
| 19. |
Cultural
competence: models, measures and movements |
Kamaldeep
Bhui |
| 20. |
Spirituality and
mental health |
Imran
Ali |