Tài liệu Mental Health in a Multi-ethnic Society A Multi-disciplinary Handbook docx

[...]... Welfare State in the UK, decolonisation in Asia and Africa, and a humanitarian approach to people generally The part played by the Fernando—Social realities and mental health 19 advent of psychotropic medication in the mid-1950s is a matter of debate; in some Scandinavian countries the emptying of mental hospitals had actually started before these drugs were available, and there the change was attributed... Therapy at University College, London With a background in psychiatric social work and probation before training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Lennox works as an individual and family therapist with an interest in the psychological development of the Black child Amanda Webb-Johnson As a primary school teacher, Amanda had an interest in multicultural and anti-racist education and spent a year in India... community mental health focusing on individual experiences and voluntary organisations William Bingley A lawyer by training, William was Legal Director of the National Association for Mental Health (MIND) for six years in the 1980s before becoming the Executive Secretary of the working group that prepared the Mental Health Act Code of Practice In 1990, he was appointed the first Chief Executive of the Mental. .. (‘sectioning’) under the Mental Health Act 1983 Suman Fernando A consultant psychiatrist and former Mental Health Act Commissioner, Suman is involved in consultancy, training and research in the mental health field He is Chair of the Board of Directors of Nafsiyat (Inter-cultural Therapy Centre) and a member of the Council of Management of MIND Suman has written two books, Race and Culture in Psychiatry... meaning of mental health in a multicultural setting, first, we need to see where we come from in terms of the culture of professional training—that is, to examine the origins of psychiatry and psychology, which, after all, have dominated and fashioned Western thinking about mental health and mental illness Second, we need to appraise what we mean by saying that a society is multicultural, not forgetting how... appreciation of contemporary social realities (with respect to questions of illness and health, issues of race and culture, etc.), it is not just a theoretical, academic definition of mental health that is required, but an evaluation of what mental health actually means as a practical proposition Chapter 1 examines Western thinking about mental health and illness in a historical context, considers the... an attempt to redress this imbalance Nothing in the field of mental health can possibly be explored in a social vacuum—not problems, ‘illness’, health, interventions, legal issues nor indeed anything else that has a bearing on mental health care And one of the significant social issues of our time is racism, so that it is inevitable that racism is a part of the scene in most, if not all, of the chapters... Following extensive experience in social work, Mita has been involved in training in the mental health field for many years, with a special interest in anti-racist/discriminatory practice and in user/carer empowerment issues Currently, she is Training Officer, Social Services Department, London Borough of Harrow Ann C.Miller Ann, a family therapist, is Principal Clinical Psychologist at the Marlborough... (so-called) have worked their way into this psychiatric system at all levels (see Chapter 2) Clearly, this Western way of conceptualising mental health problems is alien to Asian and African cultural world views and, perhaps if we think about it, alien to what many people feel even in Western countries For example, speaking very generally, in Eastern thinking integration, balance and harmony, both within oneself... the National Association for Mental Health (MIND) The term mental health problem’ has replaced, to some extent, mental illness’; people formerly called ‘patients’ are increasingly referred to as ‘service users’; and rather than (psychiatric) treatments, ‘interventions’ are planned—with the totality being subsumed within the concept of promoting mental health care’, not the eradication of mental illness’ . working in the mental health field, it is also suitable for multi-disciplinary trainings, basic trainings and in- service postgraduate trainings in a variety. in social work, Mita has been involved in training in the mental health field for many years, with a special interest in anti-racist/discriminatory practice