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
Subjects: Psychiatry, Transcultural; Psychiatry; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Mental Disorders -- ethnology; Prejudice; Race Relations -- psychology; Socioeconomic Factors
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART I: THEORY AND TRADITION * Race and culture: ethnicity and identity *Traditional western approaches to mental health * Background and culture of psychiatry * Racism in psychiatry * Changing discourse in mental health * Trauma and post-traumatic stress; title: 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 (developing) countries * Mental health of refugees in high-income (developed) countries * Prospects for plurality in therapies for mental health * Mental health for all.