Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health

Chapter 1. What is Ethnicity, Race and Culture? 2. Why Ethnicity, Race and Culture Matters in Direct Work with Users of Mental Health Services. 3. Quality Assessments. 4. Recovery Focused Care Planning. 5. Quality Relationships in the Delivery of Care Plans. 6. Ethnicity in the Context of other Identities. 7. The Role of the Team Manager. 8. The Role of Training, Education, Learning and Development Departments. 9. Considering Alternatives to the Illness Model. 10. Positive Examples of doing it Differently. 11. Conclusion. References. Index.

This is a book for practitioners - essentially a self-training book but also one that could be used as a source of knowledge in a complex and controversial field. The author knows about the realities at the grass roots, how NHS mental health care is currently set up, what types of approach are practicable and what are not and more than all that he understands what busy practitioners may look for in a book called a A''handbookA''.'- Extract from the Foreword by Dr Suman Fernando