The body is a cultural vessel, giving voice to the unspoken words of the soul and transforming the nuances of distress into a script of symptoms that echoes across diverse cultural landscapes. Within the intricate tapestry of human experience, certain threads stand out, weaving a story that defies boundaries and spans the globe. Somatization Across Cultures unfurls these threads, illuminating the diverse landscape of somatisation disorders and their interplay with culture, identity, and healing practices. As you embark on this literary voyage, prepare to traverse continents and minds, exploring the profound connection between the physical and the psychological, the cultural and the clinical. Part of the Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series, this volume brings together the various somatisation syndromes: their description, presentation, assessment, and management in one place. It is a fascinating read for any psychiatrist, physician, clinical psychologist, public health specialist, nurse and other healthcare professional, as well as any sociologist, anthropologist, and policymaker, and anyone else interested in this area of psychiatry.

Somatization Across Cultures

Politics & Social Sciences

Bhugra,Dinesh

Chaturvedi, Santosh K.

Grover, Sandeep

Nagendrappa, Sachin

Vajawat, Bhavika

Sociology

Oxford University Press

Medical students are the medical workforce of the future, responsible for both individual and population health. With an ageing global population, changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the increased computerisation and roboticization of medicine, doctors will require ever more flexibility, foresight, and courage going forward. It is crucial that their training equips them for the challenges ahead. However, recent research has found worryingly high levels of stress and burnout amongst these individuals, leading to more students dropping out or leaving the profession early. This volume presents research findings on the rates of burnout in medical students from around the world and provides ideas for a model of care to help educators and individuals take steps towards better student wellbeing. The first section covers the development of medical teaching, likely future directions of healthcare and the role of doctors, the current global situation in high-, middle-, and low- income countries, and how we measure and define burnout. The second section analyses case studies from countries across the globe, reviewing regional themes of burnout, mental health symptoms, and stressors. The third section hears from the medical students themselves, considers circumstances such as studying abroad, or studying with health conditions, and looks at potential interventions and good practice for the future, including the role of the universities and institutions, and advice to medical students on how to look after themselves. A truly international collaboration with a focus on medical student mental health and wellbeing, this book will be of interest to medical education professionals, occupational health physicians, and medical practitioners, as well as researchers, medical students, and trainees.

The Mental Health of Medical Students: Supporting Wellbeing in Medical Education

Self-Help

Molodynski, Andrew

Farrell, Sarah Marie

Stress Management

Over the past decade, cultural psychiatry has become an increasingly important branch of psychiatric research. From the impact of cultural factors on causation, expression, and management of mental health disorders to the development and acceptance of cultural formulation in recent research, it is evident that cultures play a major role in both the genesis and management of psychiatric symptoms. Practical Cultural Psychiatry is a succinct, practical handbook focusing on the clinical impact culture has on mental health disorders worldwide. Covering key topics on migration, racism, self-identity, and social networks, this resource offers practical advice on assessing, investigating, and managing psychiatric conditions. The authors place particular focus on how clinicians can approach patients from different cultural backgrounds than their own to promote pathways to care and patient experience. Written by leading voices in this expanding field, Practical Cultural Psychiatry is a useful tool for all mental health clinicians wishing to improve their approach to multiculturalism and cultural identity in daily practice.

Practical Cultural Psychiatry

Medical Books

Bhui

Ventriglio

Medicine

Thoughout the world the number of refugees and asylum seekers continues to increase at an astonishing rate. Given that most will have left their country due to persecution, war, or appalling violations of their human rights, many will have specific mental health needs. Cultural and socioeconomic factors play a major role in expressions of distress, help seeking, pathways into care, and acceptance or rejection of treatments. Being a refugee or asylum seeker raises questions about an individual's self respect and altered identity. Too often though, the needs of this population are ignored by policy makers and clinicians, and these people are left to fend for themselves. Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers presents both the theoretical and practical aspects of the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers. It looks at the impact of migration on mental health and adjustment, collective trauma, individual identity, and diagnostic fallacies. A practical section highlights cultural factors, ethnopsychopharmacology, therapeutic interaction, therapeutic expectation and psychotherapy. The final part of the book focuses on special problems - such as bereavement, sexual violence, and post traumatic stress disorders, as well as considering mental health problems in special groups, such as child refugees. This book will be an essential resource for all mental health professionals- helping them better understand the needs of refugees and asylum seekers, how their problems can be managed, and how they can best be helped.

Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

The development of the internet has brought about a seachange in the traditional doctor-patient relationship. No longer is the patient entirely at the mercy of their doctor to tell them about their problems. Via the internet they can now access vast repositories of information, about even the most obscure disorder - not all of it accurate, not all of it safe. This has changed society's attitudes to medicine generally, and certainly affected the way it views the field of psychiatry. The situation has hardly been helped by a series of well publicised scandals over the past 25 years. There are also issues regarding changing social attitudes to psychiatry, and the stigma of mental illness.This book presents a timely appraisal of the status of psychiatry and its relationship with society in the second decade of this century. It brings together an international team of specialists who review critical issues such as training, professionalism, regulation, ethics, and economics. Together, it constitutes a far-reaching document that considers the status of psychiatry now, and how it should develop in the coming years. A publication of great significance, this book will be of interest to all practising psychiatrists and mental health professionals, as well as policy makers, and those involved in patient groups.

Psychiatry's contract with society: Concepts, controversies, and consequences

Models Of Psychopathology (Core Concepts in Therapy)

Models and theories of psychopathology and their associated clinical practice do not represent scientific fact so much as a variation in perspective within psychopathology itself. Several favoured models exist within any society at a given time, and as well as changing historically over time, they also differ culturally between societies. This book examines: . the similarities, differences and points of integration in the main models of psychopathology . how the theoretical conceptualizations underpinning these models are reflected in the theory and the clinical practice of different schools of psychotherapy . how various models are used in everyday practice . whether clinicians adhere to the rules of a given model or whether, in fact, there is more integration in practice than there appears to be in theoretical conceptualizations. Models of Psychopathology is aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students of clinical psychology, counselling psychology, psychotherapy and counselling. It will also be of interest to therapy students in professional training courses and experienced clinicians who want to know more about this aspect of psychotherapy.

Davies,Dilys

Open University Press

Open Univ Pr

A practical guide to managing the mental health care of patients from different cultures. Within our increasingly multi-cultural society, the needs of patients from other cultures, especially the minority ethnic groups, are being recognized at local and national levels. Cross-cultural Psychiatry shows in detail how to adapt traditional clinical practice for the cross-cultural client.

Cross-cultural Psychiatry: A Practical Guide

Bhui, Kamaldeep

Hodder Education Publishers

Culture and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook is an authoritative text bringing together experts from around the world to discuss the provision of mental-health services within multicultural societies and what this means in clinical and practical terms. The book looks in detail at the clinical state of services for multicultural societies across the globe, drawing on a diversity of medical- and social- science disciplines in order to provide a breadth and depth of information that is not to be found in such a clear and cohesive form anywhere else. The impact of cultural differences on the management of those with mental-health disorders, whether ethical, religious, legal, or social, is compared in a number of settings and is supported by academic or experiential based evidence where appropriate.

Culture and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

This book aims to help trainees to prepare for the SAQ section of the MRCPsych II examination of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The book is not only a rehearsal for the examination but should also helps senior medical students and other professionals with information, preparation and revision. The book provides a series of questions followed by answers; this could effectively be used as a mock examination. The first chapter of the book offers some suggestions for preparing for this format of examination. These general principles; every individual needs to develop his/her own style in preparing and answering these questions. The last chapter suggests papers for further reading, some of which are seminal and every trainee should be aware of these.

Saqs in Psychiatry

Butterworth-Heinemann

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Somatization Across Cultures

The Mental Health of Medical Students: Supporting Wellbeing in Medical Education

Practical Cultural Psychiatry

Mental Health of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Psychiatry's contract with society: Concepts, controversies, and consequences

Models Of Psychopathology (Core Concepts in Therapy)

Models Of Psychopathology (Core Concepts in Therapy)

Cross-cultural Psychiatry: A Practical Guide

Culture and Mental Health: A Comprehensive Textbook (A Hodder Arnold Publication)

Saqs in Psychiatry