Elements of Culture and Mental Health : Critical Questions for Clinicians (Paperback)

Foreword. Desire and commitment: essential ingredients to learn about cultural and mental illness; 1. Is trauma-focused therapy helpful for survivors of war and conflict?; 2. Will ethnopsychopharmacology lead to changes in clinical practice?; 3. Does cognitive-behavioural therapy work in people with very different cultural orientations and backgrounds?; 4. Can you do meaningful cognitive-behavioural therapy with an interpreter?; 5. Are specific psychotherapeutic orientations indicated with specific ethnic minority groups?; 6. Can psychotherapeutic interventions overcome epistemic difference?; 7. The role of culture and difference in evaluation, assessment, and diagnosis; 8. Necessary and sufficient competencies for intercultural work; 9. The validity of existing Eurocentric diagnostic categories; 10. What are the limitations and benefits of the cultural formulation in intercultural work?; 11. Barriers to the intercultural and interracial therapeutic relationship and how to overcome them; 12. How does intercultural interpretation work in the mental health setting?; 13. Do the power relations inherent in medical systems help or hinder in cross-cultural psychiatry?; 14. Recovery and well-being: a paradigm for care; 15. Social perspectives on diagnosis; 16. Public mental health and inequalities; 17. Does psychotherapy work through an interpreter?; 18. Can race and racism be recognised and acknowledged in the transference in the therapeutic setting without it becoming a source of therapeutic impasse?; 19. Cultural competence: models, measures and movements; 20. Spirituality and mental health.