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Mental health of refugees and asylum seekers
- Editors:
- BHUGRA Dinesh, CRAIG Tom, BHUI Kamaldeep, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 320p.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Throughout the world, the number of refugees and asylum seekers continue to increase. Due to persecution, war, or violations of their human rights, many will have specific mental health needs. Cultural and socioeconomic factors play a major role in expressions of distress, help seeking, pathways into care, and acceptance or rejection of treatments. Being a refugee or asylum seeker raises questions about an individual's self-respect and altered identity. Too often though, the needs of this population are ignored by policy makers and clinicians, and these people are left to fend for themselves. This book presents both the theoretical and practical aspects of the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers. It looks at the impact of migration on mental health and adjustment, trauma, individual identity, and diagnostic fallacies. A practical section highlights cultural factors, therapeutic interaction, therapeutic expectation and psychotherapy. The final part of the book focuses on special problems - such as bereavement, sexual violence, and post-traumatic stress disorders, as well as considering mental health problems in special groups, such as child refugees. This book is designed for all mental health professionals, helping them better understand the needs of refugees and asylum seekers, how their problems can be managed, and how they can best be helped.
Clinical topics in cultural psychiatry
- Editors:
- BHATTACHARYA Rahul, CROSS Sean, BHUGRA Dinesh, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- RCPsych Publications
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 454p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at the mental health practitioner, this text offers practical information and advice on the role cultural factors play in the way psychiatric symptoms are presented and dealt with. It is divided into three main parts, covering: Theoretical and general issues; Specific mental health conditions across cultures; and Management issues in the cultural context. 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; ethnic and cultural factors in psychopharmacology. Relevant for new psychiatric trainees, and also of interest to nurses, psychologists or occupational therapists.