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Mental Health, Race and Culture: Third Edition
Suman Fernando
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Description for Mental Health, Race and Culture: Third Edition
Paperback. This is the third, significantly expanded and revised, edition of this seminal text. Incorporating additional contemporary topics, including mental health of refugees, trauma and psychosocial approaches, this text offers an illuminating account of mental health and mental disorder seen cross-culturally and internationally. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSL; JKSM; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the traditional ideas that inform practice in clinical psychology and psychiatry in order to promote new and alternative ways of thinking. Covering both theoretical perspectives and practical implications, this insightful text discusses perceptions of ethnicity and identity, compares practices around the world and looks at racism in mental health services.
This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of a seminal text offers students and practitioners alike a comprehensive and reliable study of ... Read more
This powerful text offers a unique analysis of the impact of race and culture on contemporary issues in mental health. Drawing on extensive international experience, Fernando challenges the traditional ideas that inform practice in clinical psychology and psychiatry in order to promote new and alternative ways of thinking. Covering both theoretical perspectives and practical implications, this insightful text discusses perceptions of ethnicity and identity, compares practices around the world and looks at racism in mental health services.
This fully revised, expanded and updated edition of a seminal text offers students and practitioners alike a comprehensive and reliable study of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230212718
SKU
V9780230212718
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Suman Fernando
SUMAN FERNANDO is Visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, UK,and Senior Lecturer atthe European Centre for Migration and Social Care (MASC), University of Kent, UK.He was a consultant psychiatrist for over twenty years in the National Health Service and is involved in non-governmentalorganisations in the UK and abroad. He has written and lectured ... Read more
Reviews for Mental Health, Race and Culture: Third Edition
Comment on second edition: 'Thorough, challenging and essential for today's society& multi-cultural professional interventions in mental health'- Ms Sarah Patrick, School of Health and Community Care, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK