文档介绍：It is not enough for mental health professionals to make best use of the Bhui
evidence base; they must also ensure that interventions are culturally
appropriate, acceptable and ethical. This is a plex task – to Elements of Culture
work with culturally diverse populations who may not expect the same
sort of treatments or interventions or even assessment processes as the
cultural majority. How can professionals work confidently with people from
diverse cultural backgrounds, engage with the emotional and professional and Mental Health
demands, and be more creative about how to improve the quality and
take up of care? Critical Questions for Clinicians
This short volume, developed by service users, practitioners, teachers and
researchers, aims to address this issue. Each chapter is a concise, thought- Elements CultureHealth of Mental and
provoking, engaging and creative essay about a clinical scenario that is
central to improving the quality of care for culturally diverse populations.
The scenarios mon, and the essays set out beautifully some of the
obstacles to improving care, dilemmas facing the clinician, and how they
might be e.
• mon scenarios, faced by every clinician
• Includes working with survivors of conflict; working with interpreters
• Chapters are concise, but further reading is signposted
Kamaldeep Bhui is Professor of Cultural Psychiatry and Epidemiology and
an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust. He
is also Director of Tower Hamlets Cultural Consultation Service, President
of the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, and Founding Director of
the innovative MSc course Transcultural Mental Health Care at Queen Mary,
University of London. A Trustee of Careif, an international mental health
charity, Professor Bhui also works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He
researches sociocultural risk factors and protective factors in mental health
and suicide in hard-to-reach and soc