Full Description
As the demographics shift within the US population, the importance of culture on mental health diagnosis and treatment has become critical for education and clinical training in psychiatry. While it's impossible to gain an in-depth understanding of every culture, clinicians need to have the skills and knowledge required to provide culturally respectful care for an increasingly diverse clinical population. By explaining fundamental concepts in cultural psychiatry using a case-based format, clinicians and educators in the mental health fields will be able to reduce cultural clashes and unproductive clinical encounters. Although similar books have focused on providing guidelines for working with discrete populations (e.g., African Americans, Asian Americans, LGBTQ), the purpose of Sociocultural Issues in Psychiatry is to enhance clinicians' knowledge and skills by translating theory into practice across diverse patient populations and clinical contexts. Mental health clinicians at all levels, trainees, or practitioners, will benefit from the content and education provided in this book.
Contents
Foreword
1. Introduction to Sociocultural Psychiatry
2. Culture as a Multidimensional Construct
3. Culture in the DSM-5
4. Global Psychiatric Epidemiology
5. Social Determinants of Psychiatric Illness
6. Psychiatry and Its Checkered Past: Perspectives on Current Practice
7. Minority Stress Theory and Internalized Prejudice: Links to Clinical Psychiatric Practice
8. Identifying and Working with Diverse Explanatory Models of Mental illness
9. Religion and Spirituality in Psychiatric Care: An Experiential Seminar Model Addressing Barriers to Discussing Religion and Spirituality
10. Gender and Sexuality: Shame and Safety in the Psychiatric Encounter
11. Implicit Bias in Mental Health Care
12. Responding to Patients' Provider Preferences
13. Navigating Cultural Challenges in Patient-Clinician Dyads
14. Teaching Sociocultural Psychiatry Throughout the Lifespan
