Description
| Product ID: | 9781785920844 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cultural Perspectives on Mental Wellbeing |
| Subtitle: | Spiritual Interpretations of Symptoms in Medical Practice |
| Authors: | Author: Natalie Tobert |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | Care of people with mental health issues, Care of the mentally ill, Mental health services, Psychiatry, Human biology, Mental health services, Psychiatry, Medical anthropology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Providing much needed understandings of cultural differences in attitudes and beliefs towards issues such as illness, death and mental health, this book is a remedy against the cultural dissonance occurring at present between Western medical systems and their increasingly diverse patients, in order to facilitate integrated and suitable care. As human migration brings an ever more diverse range of people, cultures and beliefs into contact, Western medical systems must adapt to cater for the different approaches it encounters towards illness, the body, gender, mental health and death.Based upon training courses taught by the author to staff at hospitals, mental health professionals, and on degree courses, this complete resource provides an essential foundation for understanding the complex and manifold approaches to medicine and health around the world. An awareness of this diversity moreover allows healthcare professionals to better engage with their patients and offer them satisfactory care and support in the future. |
| Imprint Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Publisher Name: | Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-09-21 |
