Mental Health and Wellbeing: Intercultural Perspectives
Author: Charles Watters
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Print Length: 123 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Psychology, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Social Science
Topic: Mental Health, Wellbeing, Interculturalism, Human Psyche, Psychosocial, Care, Medicine & Healthcare, Cultural Heritage/Legacy, Culture & Society, Family, Community, Multiculturalism, Migration, Mobility & Immobility, Refugees & Forced Migration, Asylum & Asylum Seekers, Religion, Spirituality, Supplication & Prayers, Mindfulness, Shamanism
Mental Health and Wellbeing is a timely new book that explores these increasingly important subjects from an intercultural perspective. This is essential reading for anyone studying or working in mental health at this time of unprecedented levels of human migration and when mutual understanding of diverse cultural perspectives is of vital importance.
Table of Contents
Acknowlegments
1. Introduction
Mental health and wellbeing in an age of migration
Mental health and wellbeing: conceptual and theoretical orientations
Structure of the book
PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MIGRATION AND MOBILITY IN MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING
2. Migration, Mobility and Cultural Diversity: Implications for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Migration: the dynamics of belongingness and otherness
Migration, mobility and social capital
Acculturation and wellbeing
Capabilities, wellbeing and mental health
Rethinking the role of cultural groups
3. Mental Health and Wellbeing: Perspectives on Religion and Spirituality
Wellbeing and the social dimensions of religion
Christian religious practice and wellbeing
Buddhism, mental health and wellbeing
Religion and healing
The quest for healing: Chinese medicine
PART II: THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF SERVICES
4. Rethinking Culture in Mental Health and Wellbeing
Diversity and the service environment: assimilation, multiculturalism and anti-racism
5. The Role of Nature and Place in Mental Health and Wellbeing
Healing places
Implications for mental health and wellbeing focussed services
6. Emerging Paradigms in Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
Open dialogue
Reflections on Shamanism and Family Constellations
7. Conclusion: Towards an Integrated, Intercultural Approach in Mental Health and Wellbeing
Bibliography
Index
Charles Watters is Professor of Wellbeing and Social Care at School of Education and Social Work and Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex. Watters is an internationally renowned expert in mental health and social care for migrants. His research includes a comparative study into the mental health and social care of refugees in four European countries on behalf of the European Commission and studies of reception arrangements for asylum seekers across Europe. In the UK, his recent work investigates the condition of asylum seekers and refugees from an equalities and human rights perspective, and the impact of immigration processes on identities. His international activities have resulted in teaching and research collaborations with universities across the globe, including in Brazil, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. His research has been published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Refugee Studies, and International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
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