The Routledge International Handbook of Race, Culture and Mental Health.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Editors' biographies -- Contributors' biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- De-centering a current global mental health paradigm -- How the book is organized -- Part A: Coloniality, globalization, and mental health -- Part B: Race and culture in mental health practices -- Part C: Culture and multiple identities in mental health -- Part D: Religion and healing in mental health -- Part E: Special populations and culture in mental health -- Part F: Culture and mental health in a global context -- Part G: Indigenous and traditional healing in mental health -- References -- Part A Coloniality, globalization, and mental health -- 1 Configurations of race and culture in mental health -- Configuring race and culture -- Critical race theory -- Developing a CRT perspective: Race, culture, and mental health -- The permanence of racism -- Liberalist ideologies -- White dominance -- Interest convergence -- The value of counter-narratives -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Coloniality, indigeneity, and mental health -- Critique of Western explanatory models and conceptualizations of mental illness -- Post-colonial theory and indigenous mental health -- A new historicity -- Psychiatry after colonial withdrawal -- Different (post)colonial mental health contexts -- Transcending the colonizer-colonized dialectic -- Writing to transgress -- Settler colonial studies and the indigeneity/mental health interface -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 A postcolonial critique of mental health: Empire and psychiatric expansionism -- Postcolonial theory and mental health -- The official narrative of Western psychiatry in the Global South -- A postcolonial critique -- Conclusion -- References.

4 Culture and the globalization of mental health -- Definitions of mental health, global mental health, and the campaign for, and against global mental health -- The ascent of the campaign for global mental health -- Background of GMH in evidence-based medicine -- Many worlds of global de-institutionalization -- Global mental health and cultural psychiatry -- Different structures of knowledge, and its production -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The politics of the global governance of mental health -- Governance of (mental) health -- Missions in the 'global' making and managing of madness/normality -- Psy-disciplines as technologies of security and governance -- Conclusion -- References -- Part B Race and culture in mental health practices -- 6 Culture in counselling psychology -- The fourth and fifth force in counselling and clinical psychology -- Cultural education and training in counselling and clinical psychology -- The emphasis on intersectionality and identity -- Counselling interventions -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Culture and psychoanalysis -- Culture-free psychoanalysis -- The Western Eurocentric point of view -- Culture, intersectionality and mental health -- Culture, race and resistance -- Inclusion of culture and race in the psychoanalytic discourse -- Internal and external reality and culture -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Race and culture in psychiatry -- Deconstructing race, culture and ethnicity in psychiatry -- Race and culture -- Conflation of race and culture -- Ethnicity -- Psychiatry: Background and current practice -- Recent critiques of psychiatry -- Critical psychiatry of Fanon -- Critiques in the United States and the United Kingdom -- Critiques of medication -- Critiques of the Movement for Global Mental Health -- Conclusion -- References.

9 Race, culture and group psychotherapy -- Diversity issues: The US example -- Seven key issues for facilitating difficult race dialogues in group psychotherapy -- Racial interpersonal process as a core element in group psychotherapy -- Racial identity as a key element in group psychotherapy -- Dealing with and facilitating emotionally charged difficult race dialogues in group psychotherapy -- Group psychotherapists as role models -- Political countertransference in group race dialogues -- Redefining cultural ethical boundaries in group therapy race dialogues -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 Culture and nursing in mental health -- Historical background -- Cultural considerations in nursing care -- Causation and prevalence -- Presentation and help-seeking -- Cultural competence and mental health nursing -- Cultural formulation interview: Collecting vital information -- Utilizing the nursing process -- The artful use of self in the cultivation of the therapeutic relationship -- Intersectionality and mental health nursing -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 11 Culture and social work in mental health -- Social work and marginalized populations in community mental health -- A workfare-as-welfare regime in the neoliberal state -- Social control of the racialized mentally ill under the neoliberal state -- Discussion -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part C Culture and multiple identities in mental health -- 12 Culture and gender in mental health -- Gender, culture and mental health -- Gender, culture and oppression -- Oppression as a determinant of mental health -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Culture and social class in mental health -- Defining social class -- Significance of discussing classism in mental health practice -- Social class, intersectionality, and mental health.

Crabs-in-a-barrel mentality worldview -- "Selling out" worldview -- Proxy kids worldview -- Materialistic worldview -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 Culture and disability in mental health -- Diagnosing mental health -- Intersectionality of disability culture and mental health -- Exclusion -- Coping strategies -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Culture and sexual orientation in mental health -- Sexuality and mental health -- Theoretical perspectives: Minority stress -- Sexual orientation, intersectionality and mental health -- Risk, resilience and protective factors -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 16 Culture and religion in mental health -- Critical overview of mental health findings: Religion, spirituality, and mental health -- Divine discourses - the emergence of religion and spirituality in mental health -- The relationship rupture: Psychiatry and spirituality -- Mental health and religious experiences -- Positive and negative religious coping -- Religious experience and mental health across cultures -- Modern magic: Religion and mental health systems -- Religion, intersectionality, and mental health -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 17 Culture, transgender individuals, and mental health -- Transgender population background -- Transphobia -- Internalized transphobia and mental health -- Mental health protective factors and coping with transphobia -- Transgender community connectedness -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- Part D Religion and healing in mental health -- 18 Atheism and healing in mental health -- The many faces of atheism -- Intersectional aspects of atheism -- A growing atheist movement? -- A new atheism -- Cultures of atheism and healing -- Atheism and mental health -- Individual contexts, healing and well-being -- Future directions.

Conclusion -- References -- 19 Buddhism and healing in mental health -- Different schools of Buddhism and mental health -- Modernist Buddhism and Western therapy -- General efficacy of Buddhist-based (third-wave) approaches -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 20 Christianity and healing in mental health -- Historical and philosophical contexts on Christian healing traditions -- Healing in the New Testament context -- Healing and 20th-century Christianity -- Intersectionality of race, culture and mental health in Christian faith -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 21 Hinduism and healing in mental health -- Religious beliefs and practices: Karma and Dharma -- Hinduism, mental health perceptions and illness representations -- Hinduism and healing -- Guru-Chela relationship -- Ritual healing -- Hinduism and traditional healing -- Ayurveda -- Yoga -- Unani -- Siddha -- Integrating clinical and counselling psychology with indigenous healing -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- References -- 22 Islam and healing in mental health -- Islam: History, philosophy and demographics -- Islamic perspectives on mental health and wellness -- Islamic healing practices -- Future directions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 23 Judaism and mental health -- Religion and multicultural psychology -- Jewish attitudes to mental health and treatment -- Traditional Judaic approaches to healing -- Traditional Judaic approaches to mental health -- Contemporary Jewish attitudes to mental health -- Jewish religiosity and mental health -- Jewish sociocultural identity and mental health -- Jewish religious practices/beliefs and mental health -- Jewish religious coping -- Trust in God -- Clinical practice with Jewish individuals -- Barriers to mental health treatment -- Attending to Jewish religious precepts in clinical practice.

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This handbook presents a thorough examination of the intricate interplay of race, ethnicity, and culture in mental health - historical origins, subsequent transformations, and the discourses generated from past and present mental health and wellness practices.

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