Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health

Assessment and Treatment of Diverse Populations

Freddy A Paniagua editor Ann-Marie Yamada editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Published:11th Sep '13

Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 12th April 2025, but could change

Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health cover

This book provides vital information that enables clinicians and mental health practitioners to treat patients of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds with maximum care.

Discusses the impact of cultural, ethnic, and racial variables for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, service delivery, and development of skills for working with culturally diverse populations. Suitable for the mental health practitioner, this book translates research findings into information to be applied in practice.The Handbook of Multicultural Mental Health, Second Edition, discusses the impact of cultural, ethnic, and racial variables for the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, service delivery, and development of skills for working with culturally diverse populations. Intended for the mental health practitioner, the book translates research findings into information to be applied in practice. The new edition contains more than 50% new material and includes contributions from established leaders in the field as well as voices from rising stars in the area. It recognizes diversity as extending beyond race and ethnicity to reflect characteristics or experiences related to gender, age, religion, disability, and socioeconomic status. Individuals are viewed as complex and shaped by different intersections and saliencies of multiple elements of diversity. Chapters have been wholly revised and updated, and new coverage includes indigenous approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental and physical disorders; spirituality; the therapeutic needs of culturally diverse clients with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities; suicide among racial and ethnic groups; multicultural considerations for treatment of military personnel and multicultural curriculum and training.

"This handbook lays the foundations for a more balanced therapeutic view after a half century of emphasis on brain-behavior relations, an emphasis that has largely overlooked the cultural forces that shape perceptions, attitudes, and actions…The second edition adds eight chapters on Jewish and Muslim communities, military service members, developmental and physical disabilities, suicide, and measurement of cultural competence." --ProtoView.com, February 2014

ISBN: 9780123944207

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1050g

660 pages

2nd edition