Elements of Culture and Mental Health : Critical Questions for Clinicians

Each chapter provides an incisive account of a question, the problems and potential solutions. Issues include:-Can CBT and psychotherapy work through an interpreter?-The role of culture and difference in evaluation, assessment and diagnosis.-Necessary and sufficient competencies for intercultural work.-How to overcome intercultural barriers in the therapeutic relationship.-Encourages the reader to think through the issues in relation to their day-to-day clinical practice.-Also contains practical advice. -Includes lists of further resources. Related titles Will sell well alongside Clinical Topics in Cultural Psychiatry, ISBN 9781904671824, from RCPsych Publications in 2010. RCPsych Publications is the publishing arm of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (based in London, United Kingdom), which has been promoting excellence in mental health care since 1841. Produced by the same editorial team who publish The British Journal of Psychiatry, they sell books for both psychiatrists and other mental health professionals; and also many written for the general public. Their popular series include the College Seminars Series, the NICE mental health guidelines and the Books Beyond Words series for people with intellectual disabilities. RCPsych publishes in all areas of psychiatry and mental health, including but not limited to: Clinical psychiatric practice Intellectual disability Mental health services for children, adolescents, adults and the elderly Psychopharmacology Psychotherapy Rehabilitation psychiatry Family mental health Service provision RCPsych Publications books can help with the following disorders: Addictions Affective disorders Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Bereavement Borderline personality disorder Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) Dementia Depression Eating disorders Perinatal psychiatric disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Psychosis Schizophrenia Sleep problems 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 clinicianIncludes working with survivors of conflict; working with interpretersChapters are concise, but further reading is signposted 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. Cultural Factors Play A Very Important Role In The Way Psychiatric Symptoms Are Presented To Clinicians And How Clinicians Deal With Them. This Book Provides An Overview Of Cultural Factors In The Causation And Management Of Mental Health Problems ... Topics Include: Cross-cultural Psychiatric Assessment; ... Ethnic Issues In Forensic Psychiatry; Treatment Of Victims Of Trauma; Ethnic And Cultural Factors In Psychopharmacology. -- Book Cover. Edited By Rahul Bhattacharya, Sean Cross, And Dinesh Bhugra. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cultural factors play a very important role in the way psychiatric symptoms are presented to clinicians and how clinicians deal with them. This book offers practical advice on the topic for the individual mental health practitioner. It provides an overview of cultural factors in the causation and management of mental health problems and an introduction to cultural competency training for healthcare professionals (now required for all National Health Service staff by the Department of Health). Each chapter provides an incisive account of a question, the problems and potential solutions. These encourage the reader to think through the issues, while also giving practical advice, in relation to their day-to-day clinical practice. Issues include: competencies for intercultural work; can CBT and psychotherapy work through an interpreter? Cultural factors play a very important role in the way psychiatric symptoms are presented to clinicians and how clinicians deal with them. This book offers practical advice for the individual practitioner and should go some way towards helping to provide cultural competency training to healthcare professionals