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Clinical Topics in Cultural Psychiatry
Edited by Rahul Bhattacharya, Sean Cross and Dinesh Bhugra
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). Topics include:
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Cross-cultural psychiatric assessment.
Intellectual disability and ethnicity.
Cultural aspects of eating disorder.
Black and minority ethnic issues in forensic psychiatry.
Treatment of victims of trauma.
Ethnic and cultural factors in psychopharmacology.
Practising clinicians and other mental health professionals will find this introduction
extremely useful in ensuring that clinical teams work together effectively and provide
optimal care for their patients, irrespective of ethnicity, culture or religion.
Previous versions of 23 of the chapters have been published in the College’s journal
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment. These have now been extensively updated, plus
six chapters have been newly commissioned for this book.
"This well written, multi-authored book delivers everything that its title promises, and
much more! ...Having a culturally competent workforce must remain the top priority
of all trusts’ chief executives. ...This book is highly recommended to all professionals
working with refugees, asylum seekers and people from Black and minority ethnic
backgrounds. It will also be of considerable value to anyone interested in how to
incorporate cultural psychiatry issues into clinical practice."
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- British Journal of Psychiatry
Contents
Part 1: Theoretical and General Issues
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Globalisation, psychiatry and human rights: new challenges for the 21st century
Migration and mental illness
Mental Health of refugees and asylum seekers
Racism, racial life events and mental ill health
Expressed emotion across cultures
Mental illness in Black and Asian ethnic minorities
Poverty, social inequality and mental health
Part 2: Specific Mental Health Conditions Across Cultures
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Schizophrenia in African–Caribbeans: contributing factors
Depression in immigrants and ethnic minorities
Attempted suicide among South Asian women
Mental health of the ageing immigrant population
Intellectual disability and ethnicity: achieving cultural competance
Culture and liaison psychiatry
Addiction in ethnic minorities
Sex and culture
Culture in child and adolescent psychiatry
Black and minority ethnic issues in forensic psychiatry
Cultural perspectives on eating disorders
Part 3: Management Issues in the Cultural Context
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20 Clinical management of patients across cultures
21 Ethnic and cultural factors in psychopharmacology
Communication with patients from other cultures: the place of explanatory
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23 Working with patients with religious beliefs
24 Interpreter-mediated psychiatric interviews
25 Treatment of victims of trauma
26 Effective psychotherapy in an ethnically and culturally diverse society
27 Diversity training for psychiatrists
Informing progress towards race equality in mental healthcare: is routine data
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29 Towards social inclusion in mental health?