Clinical topics in cultural psychiatry - Bhattacharya, Rahul (RCPsych Pub., 2010)
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 for the individual practitioner and should go some way towards helping to provide cultural competency training to healthcare professionals
Cover; CoverII; Cover III; Cover IV; Cover V; Contents; Tables; Boxes; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Part 1 Theoretical and general issues; Globalisation, psychiatry andhuman 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: care pathways and outcomes; Poverty, social inequality and mental health; Part 2 Specific mental health conditions across cultures