Culture, Diversity and Mental Health - Enhancing Clinical Practice

This book  discusses  the importance of culture and diversity within society through multicultural, cross-cultural, and intercultural encounters  while applying psychological effectiveness to manage core competencies. It carefully explains how influential the social environment is to an individual within a society.  It seeks to directly affect mental health  practitioners’ treatment within practices in accordance to specific ethno-cultural clients; and it seeks to encourage students and practitioners  to practice acceptance of diverse groups and multiracial communities. Although understanding various cultural norms and accepting diversity is not always simple, the book  promotes a global understanding through identifying cultural benefits within a multiracial, multi-ethnic society, while evoking culturally competent techniques for mental health practitioners.

Preface.- Part I: Intersectionality and Disability.- Mental Health, Multicultural Competence, and Cultural Humility from an Intersectionality Framework.- Archetypes of Black Womanhood: Implications for Mental Health, Coping & Help-Seeking.- Disability Culture.- Deaf Mental Health: Enhancing linguistically and culturally appropriate clinical practice.- Part II: Immigrant and Indigenous Mental Health.- Best Practices and Research Perspectives Working When with Immigrant Groups.- A health promotion framework for women with precarious immigration status in Canada.- Living in a Refugee Camps: The Syrian Case in Jordan.- Exploring an Islamically-Integrated Peer Support Model for Muslim Syrian Refugees.- The Impact of Cultural Beliefs on Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment.- Depression, cardiovascular disease and Indigenous Australians.- Culture Through a Clinical Lens.- Trauma and Its Impacts.- Part III: Culture and Mental Health.- Supporting Post-Secondary Youth Mental Health through Inclusive Practices Attuned to Culture.- a cross-cultural study on the experience of shame and guilt.- a cross-cultural study on dimensions of experiences of shame and guilt between mainland chinese and euro-canadians.- Social Capital and the Quality of Life of parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders – a comparison between Bedouin Fathers and Mothers.- culture and psychopathology: contributions of the philosophical and clinic phenomenologies.