Mental Health Across Cultures

2018-10-08
 |  Medical
Mental Health Across Cultures

Author: Jill Bensonn

Publisher: CRC Press

ISBN: 9781138030893

Category: Medical

Page: 222

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Every health professional interacts with patients from different cultures to their own, not just those from different countries, ethnic or religious groups, but also those with cultural differences due to sexual orientation, lifestyle, beliefs, age, gender, social status or perceived economic worth. The potential for confusions in communication and consequent problems are even greater in primary care mental health than in other areas.This guide for all health professionals provides a model for working in mental health across cultures, and outlines practical ways of using psychotherapy skills across cultures. It can be used as personal preparation by individuals in any primary care setting at home or abroad, or as a teaching tool for use with health professionals travelling to another culture, including overseas aid workers and those moving to a new country. It is also of great value to everyone interested in transcultural medicine. 'Wherever we work, whoever we are, we are working across cultures, often without realising it. The first step is to become conscious of this fact. The next step is to read this book' - Jill Benson and Jill Thistlethwaite.

Spirituality, Values and Mental Health

2007-11-15
 |  Medical
Spirituality, Values and Mental Health

Author: Peter Gilbert

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

ISBN: 1846427290

Category: Medical

Page: 336

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Spirituality, religious belief and inclusive faith communities are important for mental well being but mental health practitioners have few guidelines for acknowledging these issues when working with service users. Spirituality, Values and Mental Health gathers together personal and professional contributions from mental health professionals, carers and mental health service users and survivors. It addresses the stigma that can surround both mental health and spirituality and explores the place of the spiritual in mental health care, teasing out its implications for research, education, training and good practice. This book is a welcome source of ideas and common-sense that is essential reading for mental health practitioners, carers and service users, chaplains, faith leaders, faith communities, as well as students and professionals working in the field of spirituality and mental health.

Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures

2014-08-07
 |  Psychology
Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures

Author: Chu Kim-Prieto

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9789401789509

Category: Psychology

Page: 369

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This book presents an integrated review and critical analysis of the recent research in the positive psychology of religion, with focus on the positive psychology of religion across different cultures and religions. The book provides a review of the literature on different contributions of religion and spirituality to positive functioning and well-being and reviews religions across the world, including Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism, Native American religions, and Hinduism. It fills a unique place in the market’s increasing interest and demand in the psychology of religion, as well as positive psychology. While the target audience is researchers, scholars, and students in psychology, cross-cultural studies, religious studies, and social sciences, it will be useful for anyone interested in better understanding the contributions of religion and culture in subjective well-being.

Counseling Across Cultures

2015-01-14
 |  Social Science
Counseling Across Cultures

Author: Paul B. Pedersen

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISBN: 9781483321684

Category: Social Science

Page: 585

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Offering a primary focus on North American cultural and ethnic diversity while addressing global questions and issues, Counseling Across Cultures, Seventh Edition, edited by Paul B. Pederson, Walter J. Lonner, Juris G. Draguns, Joseph E. Trimble, and María R. Scharrón-del Río, draws on the expertise of 48 invited contributors to examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling diverse clients. The book’s chapters highlight work with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as, American Indians, refugees, individuals in marginalized situations, international students, those with widely varying religious beliefs, and many others. Edited by pioneers in multicultural counseling, this volume articulates the positive contributions that can be achieved when multicultural awareness is incorporated into the training of counselors.

Spiritual Care and Transcultural Care Research

2006
 |  Mind and body therapies
Spiritual Care and Transcultural Care Research

Author: Aru Narayanasamy

Publisher: Quay Books

ISBN: PSU:000059279686

Category: Mind and body therapies

Page: 224

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This book brings together in an accessible format the empirical studies of spiritual and cultural care by the author. The purpose of the text is to share with readers evidence-based practice in the light of a series of studies, which will give spiritual and cultural care in a variety of clinical settings. The book uniquely demonstrates the relevance of spiritual and cultural care as dimensions of practice which are central to the promotion of well-being and healing. The book is a useful resource for healthcare practitioners, researchers, lecturers, students and others who are interested in spiritual and cultural care. It also offers a model for a sustained, coherent approach to cultural and spiritual care research for researchers and others interested in this area of care.

Spirituality in Social Work Practice

2000
 |  Social Science
Spirituality in Social Work Practice

Author: Sonia Leib Abels

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015059208051

Category: Social Science

Page: 131

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Helps students and professionals in social work to link their own experiences with others'. This book shows the meaning of being a social worker in a context of spiritual helping. It helps social workers to understand both success and failure. It presents reflective inquiry questions at the end of each narrative.

The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures

2014-01-28
 |  Family & Relationships
The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures

Author: Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

ISBN: 9789401785945

Category: Family & Relationships

Page: 286

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The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual experience of aging. Thus, regardless of whether we are service providers, service recipients, educators or merely fellow human beings, it is important that we approach the aging experience through a collective lens for discovering and sharing resources as we age; honoring the past while simultaneously accepting that the future is here. A few select examples of key findings from this collaborative work are as follows. First, despite progress in the field, certain issues remain to be addressed including the challenges of racism and sexism, mistreatment, the digital divide, poverty, and other social and economic crises in urban and rural communities as they relate to our aging population. Second, the need for sustaining a sense of independence among the aged and interdependence among supportive systems is warranted. Third, our elders continue to benefit from culturally competent services community-based health interventions and social services that addresses normative and emerging challenges for them. Fourth, spirituality in both indigenous and contemporary perspectives remains important for our elders’ development and quality of life.

Counseling Across Cultures

2015-01-14
 |  Psychology
Counseling Across Cultures

Author: Paul B. Pedersen

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781452217529

Category: Psychology

Page: 585

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Containing various perspectives on counselling individuals from cultures other than that of the counsellor or therapist, this book covers everything on cross-cultural counselling. Topics cover a broad range from basic issues in cross cultural counseling and counselling in ethnocultural contexts to counseling individuals in transitional, traumatic, or emergent situations, and counseling in the context of some common culture-mediated circumstances.

Forensic Mental Health Nursing

2006
 |  Forensic psychiatric nursing
Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Author:

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015064715694

Category: Forensic psychiatric nursing

Page: 288

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The first title in a series on forensic nursing, this book considers a wide range of nursing interventions with individuals with 'personality disorders'. Its publication follows Department of Health requirements for specialist health services for people with these diagnoses, and for relevant staff training.