This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the traditional ideas that inform practice in clinical psychology and psychiatry in order to promote new and alternative ways of thinking. Covering both theoretical perspectives and practical implications, this insightful text discusses perceptions of ethnicity and identity, compares practices around the world and looks at racism in mental health services.
This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of a seminal text offers students and practitioners alike a comprehensive and reliable study of both western and non-western psychiatry and mental health practices.
Introduction .- PART 1: THEORY AND TRADITION.- Race and Culture; Ethnicity and Identity.- Traditional Approaches to Mental Health.- Background and Culture of Psychiatry.- Racism in Psychiatry.- Changing Discourse in Mental Health.- Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress; Suffering and Violence.- PART II: PRACTICE AND INNOVATION.- Application of Psychiatry: Bias and Imperialism.- Asian and African 'Therapy' for Mental Health.- Mental Health in Low and Middle Income Countries.- Mental Health of Refugees in High Income Countries.- Prospects for Plurality in Therapies for Mental Health .- Mental Health for All
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