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Ignored, silenced, neglected: housing and mental health care needs of Asian people in the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Tower Hamlets
- Author:
- RADIA Kiran
- Publisher:
- York Publishing Service/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 37p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Report surveying Asian people with mental health problems in 4 London Boroughs. Finds a range of problems with service provision and makes recommendations for improvements.
A-Z of race issues in mental health
- Author:
- WILSON Melba
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 27p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Short leaflet looking at some of the ways in which the needs of people suffering mental distress are being met under current legislation and at issues which affect service delivery for people from black and minority ethnic communities.
Mental disorder among refugees and the impact of persecution and exile: some findings from an out-patient population
- Authors:
- LAVIK Nils Johan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 169, December 1996, pp.726-732.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Presents the results of a study which aims to describe the type and degree of mental disorder in an out-patient population of refugees living in exile in a culturally different host country. Analyses the relationships between psychiatric symptoms and dysfunction and between socio-demographic background, type of persecution and conditions in exile. The results confirm earlier findings that refugees constitute a population at risk for mental disorder. Past traumatic stressors and current existence in exile constitute independent risk factors. However, stressors other than those discussed appear to be important also, particularly with regard to psychotic symptoms.
Amos: a self lost and found
- Author:
- TIBBS Margaret Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 4(2), March 1996, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The lack of culturally sensitive services for people from ethnic minorities can literally be deadly. Describes the life of Amos Jackson and the lessons it taught the author.
Therapy with attitude
- Author:
- STEPHENS Sonia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.1.96, 1996, pp.40-42.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the Shanti Project, a mental health service for women from ethnic minorities, which aims to help those often excluded from therapy understand their feelings of social and political distress.
Poor recognition, poorer services for black women
- Author:
- WILLMOT Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 81, September 1996, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- MIND
Looks at recent research in Birmingham which raises important questions about access to counselling for black and minority ethnic women with mental health problems and suggests some ways forward.
Ethnicity, social status, and families' experiences of caring for mentally ill family member
- Authors:
- GUARNACCIA Peter J., PARRA Pilar
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 32(3), June 1996, pp.243-260.
- Publisher:
- Springer
There is growing attention to the role of families as caregivers of family members with serious mental illness. This paper presents data from a multicultural sample of 90 family caregivers from diverse ethnic backgrounds in the United States of America. The paper examines families' experiences with mental health services; their support networks and family burdens; and their conceptions of mental illness. Suggests also an agenda for future research in this area.
Race, culture and counselling
- Authors:
- LAGO Colin, THOMPSON Joyce
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 189p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Seeks to explore some of the major dimensions and subtleties underlying the issues of race and culture and how these might impact upon counselling-psychotherapeutic relationships. Includes chapters on: issues of race and power; understanding culture; cultural barriers to communication; the limitations of western theories of counselling and psychotherapy; non-western approaches to helping; supervising and supporting the needs of therapists in multicultural and multiracial settings; and training therapists to work with different client groups.
Mental health and the Asian communities: a local survey
- Authors:
- HATFIELD Barbara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 26(3), June 1996, pp.315-336.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Describes a survey of people from the Asian communities in 'Milltown' which includes people who used mental health services, family members of service users, and members of the Asian general public. Personal and social stresses of the group were explored as were their perceptions of the 'causes' of mental ill-health and appropriate responses. A range of issues identified by respondents surrounded the cultural acceptability of services. The findings of the survey are compared with similar studies, which focus on indigenous white British service users. Some findings are common; other issues are specific to this Asian group.
Mental health in black America
- Editors:
- NEIGHBORS Harold W., JACKSON James S.
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 278p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Thousand Oaks, CA
Includes chapters on: psychosocial problems and help seeking behaviour; a model free approach to the study of subjective well being; stress and residential well being; problem drinking, chronic disease, and recent life events; an analysis of stress denial; marital status and mental health; the association between anger, hostility and hypertension; coping with personal problems; patterns of help seeking among African American women; the role of the police; and changes in African American resources and mental health 1979-1992.