Mental health, race and culture
By: Suman Fernando
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780230212718
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-217) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I : Theory and tradition; title: Race and culture ; ethnicity and identity; title: Traditional western approaches to mental health; title: Background and culture of psychiatry; title: Racism in psychiatry; title: Changing discourse in mental health; title: Trauma and post-traumatic stress ; suffering and violence; title: Part II: Practice and innovation; title: Application of psychiatry : bias and imperialism; title: Asian and African 'therapy' for mental health; title: Mental health in low- and middle income countries; title: Mental health of refugees in high-income countries; title: Prospects for plurality in therapies for mental health; title: Mental health for all.