Based on a recently completed project of
cultural consultation in Montreal, Cultural
Consultation presents a model of multicultural
and applicable health care. This model used clinicians
and consultants to provide in-depth assessment,
treatment planning, and limited interventions in
consultation with frontline primary care and mental
health practitioners working with immigrants, refugees,
and members of indigenous and ethnocultural communities.
Evaluation of the service has demonstrated that focused
interventions by consultants familiar with patients’
cultural backgrounds could improve the relationship
between the patient and the primary clinician. This
volume presents models for intercultural work in
psychiatry and psychology in primary care, general
hospital and specialty mental health settings. The
editors highlight crucial topics such as: -
Discussing the social context of intercultural mental
health care, conceptual models of the role of culture in
psychopathology and healing, and the development of a
cultural consultation service and a specialized cultural
psychiatric service - Examining the process of
intercultural work more closely with particular emphasis
oto strategies of consultation, the identity of the
clinician, the ways in which gender and culture position
the clinician, and and interaction of the consultant
with family systems and larger institutions -
Highlighting special situations that may place specific
demands on the clinician: working with refugees and
survivors of torture or political violence, with
separated families, and with patients with psychotic
episodes This book is of valuable use to mental
health practitioners who are working in
multidisciplinary settings who seek to understand
cultural difference in complex cases. Psychiatrists,
psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners,
primary care providers and trainees in these disciplines
will make thorough use of the material covered in this
text.
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