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\"This edited volume is an anthology of institutional ethnography (IE) inquiries into psychiatry-the first ever to be written. It focuses on a large variety of different geographic locations and constitutes a major contribution to anti/critical psychiatry, as well as institutional ethnography. Themes include the DSM, the use and protection of problematic psychiatric research, and the penetration of psychiatry into the workplace.\"-- Publisher's description.

This volume is the first comprehensive resource to assist neuropsychologists to provide culturally competent services to Asian Americans. It highlights pertinent historical socio-cultural characteristics of the largest Asian American ethnic groups, which helps to conceptualize presentation, provide an optimal environment for test administration, interpret tests within a cultural context, and offer culturally sensitive feedback and recommendations. In addition, the volume gives a summary of the available neuropsychological literature for each Asian American ethnic group, recommendations for testing, and illustrative case samples. The second purpose of the volume is to provide a glimpse of how neuropsychology is currently practiced in different Asian countries, by reviewing the neuropsychological literature and by listing the available resources. This information gives valuable insights to neuropsychologists working with Asian communities throughout the world. Neuropsychology of Asian Americans is an essential resource for clinical neuropsychologists and school psychologists who perform neuropsychological services to Asians. It is also an important resource for academic neuropsychologists and students with Asians in their sample, as cultural variables may have moderating effects on data that information in this book helps to elucidate. Part 1. Asian American Neuropsychology . D. Fujii , Introduction. D. Fujii, B. Yee, S. Eap, T. Kuoch, M. Scully, Neuropsychology of Cambodian Americans. T. Wong , Neuropsychology of Chinese Americans. K. Nadal, J. Monzones , Neuropsychological Assessments and Filipino Americans: Cultural Implications for Practice. D. Fujii, A. Vang , Neuropsychology of Hmong. V. Phatak, V. Kamath, D. Fujii , Neuropsychology of Asian Indian Americans. B. Tsushima, V. Tsushima, D. Fujii , Neuropsychology of Japanese Americans. M.Y. Jo, L. Kwon Dawson , Neuropsychological Assessment of Korean Americans. D. Fujii , Neuropsychology of Laotian Americans. D. Fujii, T. Wu, K. Ratanadilok , Neuropsychology of Thai Americans. D. Ngo, M.T. Le, P.D. Le , Neuropsychology of Vietnamese Americans. Part 2. Neuropsychology in Asia . A. Chan, W. Leung, M.C. Cheung , Neuropsychology in China. K. Kumar , Neuropsychology in India. A. Isomura, M. Mimura, Neuropsychology in Japan. J. Chey, H. Park, Neuropsychology in Korea. N.C. Din , Neuropsychology in Malaysia. M.R. Lopa-Ramos , L. Ledesma , Neuropsychology in the Philippines. S. Collinson, D. Yeo , Neuropsychology in Singapore: History, Development, and Future Directions. K. Ratanadilok , Neuropsychology in Thailand Daryl Fujii is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist (American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology) and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. He has over 50 publications including an edited book, The Spectrum of Psychotic Disorders . Daryl has been actively promoting cross cultural neuropsychological competencies through his involvement with the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) and Veteran’s Affairs Psychology Diversity Training Committee, and mentoring ethnic minority neuropsychologists through his participation in APA’s Division 40 Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee as well as training practicum students, interns, and post doctoral fellows. Daryl currently works as a geriatric neuropsychologist at the Pacific Island Health Care Services Center for Aging and is an international consultant and lecturer. \"While no one book can allow us to understand [cultural] differences fully, the current volume goes a long way in helping neuropsychologists feel much less helpless. ... When it comes to U.S. neuropsychologists seeing Asian clients ... The Neuropsychology of Asian-Americans is the place to look. ... A rewarding read for those who are interested in cross-cultural issues generally. The astonishing range of languages, levels and types of education, cultural practices and influences, and histories represented in this book is a useful antidote to Asian stereotyping. ... The writing is uniformly clear and straightforward, another indication of excellent editing. ... The Neuropsychology of Asian-Americans is a very practical book. It provides a concise guide to the clinician that is well-written and well-organized. Hopefully, it may serve as a model for future work concerning other immigrant populations. ... If we in the West truly want to understand the neuropsychological functioning of the human brain, we must become more aware of that other half of humanity that is addressed in this book.\" – Tedd Judd, Clinical Neuropsychologist, in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society \" Daryl Fujii’s Neuropsychology of Asian Americans is an invaluable resource for any clinician, trainee, or student who wishes to gain cross-cultural competence with clients of Asian descent. While this book provides a comprehensive review of cultural factors that are directly applicable to neuropsychological assessment, the breadth and depth of information covered in this book is highly useful for any clinician who works with this population. \" - Lauren Drag, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, USA \"The Neuropsychology of Asian Americans superbly describes many cultural and linguistic factors that can undermine an evidence-based assessment of Asian Americans . ... The Neuropsychology of Asian Americans is a unique resource in that it provides historical background information regarding the stressors, conflicts, wars, and other sociological issues unique to each of the cultures discussed. ... The Neuropsychology of Asian Americans is an engaging, comprehensive, and informative text for any clinician who assesses or treats clients of Asian descent. The recommendations and case studies make the book easy to read and a practical reference. This book would also be useful to incorporate in course work on diversity and culturally competent practice in counseling or clinical psychology programs. It is a necessary read for any clinician using psychological or cognitive tests with Asian Americans. At the very least, any psychologist or neuropsychologist, especially those practicing in an urban environment, will benefit by having this text as a reference .\" – Robert B. Perna and Rebecca Villar in PsycCRITIQUES

Culture and Mental Health takes a critical look at the research pertaining to common psychological disorders, examining how mental health can be studied from and vary according to different cultural perspectives. Introduces students to the main topics and issues in the area of mental health using culture as the focus Emphasizes issues that pertain to conceptualization, perception, health-seeking behaviors, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the context of cultural variations Reviews and actively encourages the reader to consider issues related to reliability, validity and standardization of commonly used psychological assessment instruments among different cultural groups Highlights the widely used DSM-IV-TR categorization of culture-bound syndromes

\"Oaxaca is known for many things--its indigenous groups, archaeological sites, crafts, and textiles--but not for mental health care. When one talks with Oaxacans about mental health, most say it's a taboo topic and that people there think you \"have to be crazy to go to a psychologist.\" Yet throughout Oaxaca are signs advertising the services of a psicâologico; there are prominent conferences of mental health professionals; and self-help groups like Neurotics Anonymous thrive, where participants rise to say, \"Hola, mi nombre es Raquel, y soy neurâotica.\"How does one explain the recent growth of Euroamerican-style therapies in the region? Author Whitney L. Duncan analyzes this phenomenon of \"psy-globalization\" and develops a rich ethnography of its effects on Oaxacans' understandings of themselves and their emotions, ultimately showing how globalizing forms of care are transformative for and transformed by the local context. She also delves into the mental health impacts of migration from Mexico to the United States, both for migrants who return and for the family members they leave behind.This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine\"-- Provided by publisher.

Clinicians will, of course, find the DSM-5® Handbook of the Cultural Formulation Interview indispensable, but administrators, policy makers, advocates, and other practitioners who work collaboratively to engage patients in the mental health care process will also value its clarity and comprehensiveness.

\"Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation, perpetuation and treatment of patients suffering with mental illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly being recognised, and the misconceptions that can occur as a result of cultural differences can lead to misdiagnoses, under or over-diagnosis. This second edition of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry has been completely updated with additional new chapters on globalisation and mental health, social media and tele-psychiatry. Written by world-leading experts in the field, this new edition provides a framework for the provision of mental health care in an increasingly globalised world. The first edition of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry was commended in the BMA Book Awards in 2008 and was the recipient of the 2012 Creative Scholarship Award from the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture\"--Provided by publisher.

Over the past two decades, there has been an increase in the need to prepare and train mental health personnel in working with diverse populations. In order to fully understand individuals from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds, practitioners need to begin to examine, conceptualize, and treat individuals according to the multiple ways in which they identify themselves. The purpose of this casebook is to bridge the gap between the current practice of counseling with the newest theories and research on working with diverse clientele. Each chapter is written by leading experts in the field of multicultural counseling and includes a case presentation with a detailed analysis of each session, a discussion of their theoretical orientation and how they have modified it to provide more culturally appropriate treatment, and an explanation of how their own dimensions of diversity and worldviews enhance or potentially impede treatment. This text is a significant contribution to the evolving area of multicultural counseling and will be a valuable resource to mental health practitioners working with diverse populations.

\"In 2003 the Bush Administration's New Freedom Commission asked mental health service providers to begin promoting \"recovery\" rather than churning out long-term, \"chronic\" mental health service users. Recovery's Edge sends us to urban America to view the inner workings of a mental health clinic run, in part, by people who are themselves \"in recovery\" from mental illness. In this provocative narrative, Neely Myers sweeps us up in her own journey through three years of ethnographic research at this unusual site, providing a nuanced account of different approaches to mental health care. Recovery's Edge critically examines the high bar we set for people in recovery through intimate stories of people struggling to find meaningful work, satisfying relationships, and independent living. This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine\"--Provided by publisher.

This article provides an overview of research on race-related stressors that can affect the mental health of socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic populations. It begins by reviewing the research on self-reported discrimination and mental health. Although discrimination is the most studied aspect of racism, racism can also affect mental health through structural/institutional mechanisms and racism that is deeply embedded in the larger culture. Key priorities for research include more systematic attention to stress proliferation processes due to institutional racism, the assessment of stressful experiences linked to natural or manmade environmental crises, documenting and understanding the health effects of hostility against immigrants and people of color, cataloguing and quantifying protective resources, and enhancing our understanding of the complex association between physical and mental health.