Clinical Topics in Cultural Psychiatry - Softcover

9781904671824: Clinical Topics in Cultural Psychiatry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904671829 ISBN 13: 9781904671824

Publisher: RCPsych Publications, 2010

Cultural factors play a very important role in the way psychiatric symptoms are presented to clinicians and how clinicians deal with them. This book offers practical advice on the topic for the individual mental health practitioner. It provides an overview of cultural factors in the causation and management of mental health problems and an introduction to cultural competency training for healthcare professionals (now required for all National Health Service staff by the Department of Health). Topics include cross-cultural psychiatric assessment, intellectual disability and ethnicity, cultural aspects of eating disorder, black and minority ethnic issues in forensic psychiatry, treatment of victims of trauma, and ethnic and cultural factors in psychopharmacology. Practising clinicians and other mental health professionals will find this introduction extremely useful in ensuring that clinical teams work together effectively and provide optimal care for their patients, irrespective of ethnicity, culture or religion.

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About the Author

Rahul Bhattacharya (Psychiatrist at Mile End Hospital, London). Sean Cross (Registrar in Liaison Psychiatry at St Thomas' Hospital, London). Dinesh Bhugra (Head of the Section of Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, London and President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London).

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