Main description:

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: 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; and 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.

Contents:

Part 1: Theoretical and General Issues. Chapter 1: Globalisation, psychiatry and human rights: new challenges for the 21st century. Chapter 2: Migration and mental illness. Chapter 3: Mental Health of refugees and asylum seekers. Chapter 4: Racism, racial life events and mental ill health. Chapter 5: Expressed emotion across cultures. Chapter 6: Mental illness in Black and Asian ethnic minorities. Chapter 7: Poverty, social inequality and mental health. Part 2: Specific Mental Health Conditions Across Cultures. Chapter 8: Schizophrenia in African-Caribbeans: contributing factors. Chapter 9: Depression in immigrants and ethnic minorities. Chapter 10: Attempted suicide among South Asian women. Chapter 11: Mental health of the ageing immigrant population. Chapter 12: Intellectual disability and ethnicity: achieving cultural competence. Chapter 13: Culture and liaison psychiatry. Chapter 14: Addiction in ethnic minorities. Chapter 15: Sex and culture. Chapter 16: Culture in child and adolescent psychiatry. Chapter 17: Black and minority ethnic issues in forensic psychiatry. Chapter 18: Cultural perspectives on eating disorders. Part 3: Management Issues in the Cultural Context. Chapter 19: Cross-cultural psychiatric assessment. Chapter 20: Clinical management of patients across cultures. Chapter 21: Ethnic and cultural factors in psychopharmacology. Chapter 22: Communication with patients from other cultures: the place of explanatory models. Chapter 23: Working with patients with religious beliefs. Chapter 24: Interpreter-mediated psychiatric interviews. Chapter 25: Treatment of victims of trauma. Chapter 26: Effective psychotherapy in an ethnically and culturally diverse society. Chapter 27: Diversity training for psychiatrists. Chapter 28: Informing progress towards race equality in mental healthcare: is routine data collection adequate? Chapter 29: Towards social inclusion in mental health?