Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society (eBook, ePUB)

A Multidisciplinary Handbook
Redaktion: Fernando, Suman; Keating, Frank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition of Mental Health in a Multi-Ethnic Society is an authoritative, comprehensive guide on issues around race, culture and mental health service provision. It has been updated to reflect the changes in the UK over the last ten years and features entirely new chapters by over twenty authors, expanding the range of topics by including issues of particular concern for women, family therapy, and mental health of refugees and asylum seekers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134120994
• Artikelnr.: 38251937

Autorenporträt

Suman Fernando has been a consultant psychiatrist and an academic in the mental health field for over twenty-five years. He is honorary Senior Lecturer at the European Centre for the Study of Migration & Social Care and honorary Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University. Frank Keating is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Care at Royal Holloway University of London where he is Programme Director for the MSc in Social Work. His main research focuses on the inequalities in mental health for African and Caribbean communities in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part 1: Current Scene Meanings and Realities. Race Relations,
Mental Health and Human Rights - The Legal Framework. Inequalities and the
Politics of 'Race' in Mental Health. Black and Minority Ethnic Women. Race
Equality Training in the UK: An Historical Overview. Part 2: Confronting
Issues Management Approaches to Effecting Change. Innovation in the
Voluntary Sector. The Challenges of Race Equality and Cultural Capability
(RECC) Training. Developing Psychological Services for Refugee Survivors of
Torture. Black Service 'User Involvement' - Rhetoric or Reality? A
Programme for Changing Attitudes in the Statutory Sector: Dialogue is
Critical. Part 3: Making It Happen Working Therapeutically with Hidden
Dimensions of Racism. The Marlborough Cultural Therapy Centre. Mental
Health Services for Chinese People. Counselling and Day Care for South
Asian People. African and Caribbean Mental Health Service in Manchester.
The Sanctuary Practice in Hackney. A Movement Led by Black Service Users in
South London. Part 4: Lessons for the Future The Way Ahead.