The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health
Editors: Parekh, Ranna, Trinh, Nhi-Ha T. (Eds.)
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- Offers information relevant to providers of specific populations but also creative approaches to understanding diversity without one’s having specific knowledge of minority groups
- Written by experts in specific topics in cultural sensitivity in mental health
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- About this book
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This edition is updated to include new research and clinical material for practitioners working with mental health patients of diverse backgrounds. Written by experts in cultural sensitivity, the text begins by establishing innovative approaches to understanding diversity, tools for diversity educational training for health care providers, clinical interviewing techniques and effective strategies in having difficult conversations. Indirect approaches to understanding diversity and mental health come from unique chapters that range from the ways that journalists process and discuss mental health competency to the business model for cultural competency in health care.
The second section of the book moves from the broader subjects to the needs of specific populations, including Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, African American, Middle Eastern, Refugee and LGBQT communities. The discussion includes understanding the complexities of making mental health diagnoses and the various meanings these diagnoses have for the socio-cultural group described. Each chapter also details biopsychosocial treatment options and challenges.
The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health, Second Edition, is an excellent resource for all clinicians working with diverse populations, including psychiatrists, primary care physicians, emergency room physicians, early career physicians and trainees, psychologists, nurses, social workers, researchers, and medical educators.
- About the authors
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Ranna Parekh, MD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
1423 N. Rhodes Street
Unit 301
Arlington, VA
22209Nhi-Ha Trinh, MD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program (MGH DCRP)
One Bowdoin Square, Sixth floor
Boston, MA 02114
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Diversity Dialogue
Pages 3-23
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The Engagement Interview Protocol (EIP): Improving the Acceptance of Mental Health Treatment Among Culturally Diverse Populations
Pages 25-36
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Cultural and Diversity Issues in Mediation and Negotiation
Pages 37-53
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Providing Medical Care to Diverse Populations
Pages 55-74
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Cultivating Courage, Compassion, and Cultural Sensitivity in News Reporting of Mental Health During Challenging Times
Pages 75-90
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health
- Editors
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- Ranna Parekh
- Nhi-Ha T. Trinh
- Series Title
- Current Clinical Psychiatry
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-20174-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-20174-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20173-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20176-0
- Series ISSN
- 2626-241X
- Edition Number
- 2
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 282
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
- Topics