Mental health professionals, minorities, and the poor / Michael E. Illovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Illovsky, Michael E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatry, Transcultural.

Cross-cultural counseling.

Cultural psychiatry.

Physical Description:

x, 265 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Mental Health Professionals, Minorities, and the Poor provides mental health professionals with information essential to the accurate assessment and effective treatment of diverse populations. Focusing on social, political, and economic aspects -- often-overlooked factors that impact mental health -- Michael Illovsky compels clinicians to reconsider the currently available treatment models and proposes a new model that takes into consideration the increasing significance of culture in counseling and therapy. With world populations becoming increasingly heterogeneous, and interactions among people from different cultures steadily increasing, as inevitably they must, this book is a critical resource for ethnic minorities in treatment, their friends and relatives concerned with their welfare, and students and professionals faced with the challenge of treating diverse populations.

Contents:

Chapter 2 Factors to Consider When Providing Services to Cross-Cultural Persons 9

Differences That Might Mitigate Therapeutic Effects When Counseling Minorities 9

Solutions to Consider 30

Selection of Mental Health Professionals, Training, Power, and Politics 40

Ethics 46

Insights from Assessment 47

Mental Health Training and the Poor 49

Necessary and Sufficient Skills 50

Power Dynamics 56

Chapter 3 Minority Mental Health Research 63

Minorities in the General Mental Health Literature 63

Minority Mental Health Research 64

Culture and Psychopathology 66

Analyses of Minority Mental Health Research 70

Ethnic Group Classification 74

Misuse of Minority Data Reporting 76

Chapter 4 Using Technology 85

Human Impediments 86

Minority Education, Training, and Community Development 90

Chapter 5 Evolutionary Psychology

with Cross-Cultural Applications 101

Evolution (Biological) 103

Evolutionary Psychology 104

Mental Disorders 108

Evolutionary Approaches to Cross-Cultural Therapy 113

Explanations of Racism 120

Chapter 6 Special Populations: Sexual Orientation, Disabilities, Children, Women, and Older Persons 125

Sexual Orientation/Homosexuality 127

Minorities with Disabilities 133

Ethnic Minority Children 139

Ethnic Minority Women 143

Ethnic Minority Older Persons 153

Minorities in Rural Areas 159

Middle-Class Minorities 161

Goals, Plans, Solutions, and Recommendations 163

Chapter 7 World Mental Health

It Isn't the Fault of the Minorities and the Poor 173

Why Study the Conditions of Other Cultures in the World? 173

Why and How Do Inequities Exist? 175

World Mental Health of Minorities and the Poor 181

Findings and Solutions 185

Scholarship and Action 195

Therapy and Action 197

Institutional Skills 199

Counseling Models 200

Contributions of Other Cultures 202

Universal Perspective 212.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-256) and index.

ISBN:

0415935768

OCLC:

50072461