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Approved social worker and mental health officer training: guidelines for developing antiracist practice
- Author:
- CENTRAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN SOCIAL WORK
- Publisher:
- Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 28p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Black and minority ethnic people and mental health in Britain: an holistic approach
- Authors:
- MARRINGTON-MIR Parveen, RIMMER Annette
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 15(6), December 2007, pp.37-41.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This paper challenges the medically dominated mental health orthodoxy in Britain. It advocates an integrated community development approach underpinned by anti-racist, empowering practice. It offers successful practice examples of holistic, self-governed mental health system for Black people in Britain. The paper draws on the philosophy of social action and Ubuntu, the African model of collective support, and arguments for empowerment and participation. Together these influences from the basis of community development work in Britain and globally.
Making it diverse: mental health promotion and black and minority ethnic groups
- Author:
- TIDYMAN Mary
- Publisher:
- Mentality
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 57p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Makes the case for mental health promotion to improve the mental health of the black and minority ethnic population, through both universal programmes that meet the needs of the whole population and specific mental health promotion interventions that work with and target different black and minority ethnic groups. This will help ensure that the needs of the black and minority ethnic population are addressed and inequalities in health and mental health challenged through local mental health promotion strategies implemented in response to Standard One of the National Service Framework for Mental Health.
Racism behind closed doors
- Author:
- AHMED Maria
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.1.05, 2005, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discusses whether young offender institutions have responded to the murder of Zahid Mubarek at Feltham young offender institution and the resulting investigation carried out by the Commission for Racial Equality. Key points from the investigation were cell-sharing policies and the need for proper appraisals of inmates' mental health and staff training on race issues.
Engaging and changing: developing effective policy for the care and treatment of Black and minority ethnic detained patients
- Authors:
- PATEL Kamlesh, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. National Institute for Mental Health in Eng
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 88p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
This report is primarily designed to provide guidance material in relation to the development of policies concerning the care and treatment of Black and minority ethnic detained patients in the areas of ethnic monitoring, racial harassment, the use of interpreters and the provision of culturally appropriate care and staff training.
Appropriate or racist?
- Author:
- HENRY David
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 98, July 1999, p.9.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Discusses specific mental health services for black African-Caribbean patients at Rampton Hospital.
Improving mental health practice: reader, training materials and guidelines
- Authors:
- CLARKE Pam, et al
- Publisher:
- Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 226p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
Training manual which contains a reader on racism and mental health, training materials, training exercises and guidelines for antiracist mental health social work practice.
Mental health, race and culture
- Author:
- FERNANDO Suman
- Publisher:
- MacMillan/MIND
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 253p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes and analyses mental health theory, practice, tradition and innovation around the world in the context of a diversity of world-views and of problems arising from racism. Argues that psychiatric imperialism at a global level and racist ways of working at an individual level must be combated in order for us to move forward into truly culturally based concepts of mental health.
Cultural diversity, mental health and psychiatry: the struggle against racism
- Author:
- FERNANDO Suman
- Publisher:
- Brunner-Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 258p.,bibliog
- Place of publication:
- Hove
According to the National Service Framework for mental health published by the Department of Health in 1999 black and minority ethnic communities have little confidence in mental health services. This book examines how and why this situation has come about, and makes specific practical, often surprising, suggestions for changing the status quo. The author reflects on the current situation in light of his own personal experience, academic research and anecdotal reports. He weaves together themes of importance for the future of psychiatry and mental health services in a multi-cultural setting, exploring: the nature of racism and its permeation into mental health services; the inside story of the struggle against racism in statutory and voluntary sectors of the mental health system; the history of psychiatry; and the role of spirituality, holistic thinking, psychotherapy and Asian traditions of medicine.
Ethnic diversity and mental health in London: recent developments
- Authors:
- KEATING Frank, ROBERTSON David, KOTECHA Nutan
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 61p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Argues that mental health services have been slower to address inequalities than other health sectors and that this is exacerbating the problem of mental illness in the capital. As a result, services are less likely to be accessible to women from black and minority ethnic groups (BME). The paper found that services were particularly inaccessible to refugees and asylum seekers, which is compounded by the fact that staff are insufficiently equipped to assess the specific needs of these groups. Furthermore, staff are often not aware of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers to health and social care services which influences how they respond to calls for help from these communities. Race equality in mental health services has been prominent in recent policy developments at a national level, but locally, services for black and minority ethnic people with mental health problems are often basic, insensitive and piecemeal. This, it says, can contribute to an increase in alienation and isolation. The report also states that the experience and heritage of specific communities - including refugees, Irish, Asian, Chinese, Jewish, African and Afro-Caribbean people - and the impact of racism and other forms of oppression, need to be acknowledged and better understood. It found that the Irish community - the largest white minority group in London - has marked differences in levels of mental illness compared with other white groups. Compared to any other group, Irish people, and particularly Irish women, have the highest overall psychiatric admission rates, highest rates of admission for depression and alcohol abuse, and significant under-use of statutory community based resources.