Mental health, race and culture / Suman Fernando.
- Fernando, Suman.
- Date:
- 2010
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- Online
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Description
"This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally"--Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Physical description
xi, 232 pages ; 24 cm
Contributors
Edition
3rd ed.
Contents
pt. 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 -- pt. 2. 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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-217) and indexes.
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ISBN
- 9780230212718
- 0230212719