As our understanding of the human mind, idioms of human distress and mental health has
improved, it has become apparent that culture has an impact on all aspects of our lives …

Large variations of inequalities in rates of mental health disorders and access to mental
health care exist within and between countries. Globally, disparities range from countries …

Worldwide, increases in population growth and mobility have resulted in a society that is
increasingly multicultural in nature. Forced and voluntary migration, economic globalization …

Abstract The Working with Culture seminar is offered as a course during the month long
Annual McGill Summer Program for Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, attended by local …

It is not enough for mental health professionals to make best use of the evidence base; they
must also ensure that interventions are culturally appropriate, acceptable and ethical. This is …

In this overview, the subject of culture and psychotherapy is considered broadly from five
perspectives:(i) culture-embedded indigenous healing practices,(ii) culture-influenced …

Cultural diversity presents an important challenge for health care services in every society
around the world. In this introductory chapter, we consider the changing meanings of culture …

Cultural diversity has always been a fact of life, nowhere more so than in the unique melting
pot of US society. Respecting and understanding that diversity is an important--and …

Cultural clinical psychology and psychiatry aim to address the mental health needs of
diverse communities by integrating attention to cultural differences in knowledge, social …

People in different cultures have different concepts of the person that underlie self-
understanding and self-representation. These concepts influence many aspects of …