Culture and Mental Health

List of figures.
 
List of tables.
 
Foreword.
 
Preface.
 
Acknowledgments.
 
Part I: General Issues in Culture and Mental Health.
 
1. Introduction to Culture and Psychopathology.
 
2. Culture and Mental Health Assessment.
 
3. Stress and Mental Health.
 
4. Managing Job Stress: Cross-Cultural Variations in Adjustment.
 
5. Chronic Pain: Cultural Sensitivity to Pain.
 
6. Placing the Soul Back into Psychology: Religion in the Psychotherapy Process.
 
7. Psychotherapy in a Culturally Diverse World.
 
8. Culture and mental health: An international perspective.
 
Part II: Cross-cultural Issues in Specific Psychological Disorders.
 
9. Culture and mood disorders.
 
10. Culture and Anxiety Disorders.
 
11. Cultural Factors in Traumatic Stress.
 
12. Culture and Psychotic Disorders.
 
13. Culture and Eating Disorders.
 
14. Culture and Suicide

Sussie Eshun is a licensed psychologist and Professor of Psychology at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. In addition to clinical practice, she has several publications on the role of culture in suicide, depression, and stress. She has developed and taught several courses on culture, adjustment, and human development, and is a strong advocate for including empirical research on cultural diversity in the curriculum. She currently serves as Chair for the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity at her campus and has been actively involved in workshops and seminars with the Office of Diversity at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's (PASSHE) chancellor's office. She has been awarded several diversity grants for mentoring ethnic minority high school students and also for recruitment and retention of diverse faculty.

Regan A. R. Gurung is Chair of the Human Development department and Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is also Co-Director of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Teaching Scholars Program, has been a UWGB Teaching Fellow, a UW System Teaching Scholar, and is winner of the Founder's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Founder's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, as well as UW Teaching-at-its-Best, Creative Teaching, and Featured Faculty Awards. He is the author of two other books: Health Psychology: A Cultural Approach (2e, 2010) and Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Catalyzing Pedagogical Research (with Beth Schwartz), and is co-editor of two other books: Getting Culture? Best Practices for Incorporating Culture into the Curriculum (with Loreto Prieto), and Practicing our Signatures: Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind (with Nancy Chick and Aeron Haynie).

"One of the primary goals of psychology as a discipline is the alleviation of human suffering. To this end, it is imperative that we understand the various forms of human dysfunction and psychopathology, so that we can continuously intervene in constructive and helpful ways. As the world becomes smaller and borders more porous, psychologists also have the need to adopt a global perspective on the causes, forms, and treatments of various types of illnesses that afflict so many in the world today. Eshun and Gurung's book represents the latest and best effort to compile the information about culture and mental health available in the field today. They have assembled some of the best scholars in the field to bring to bear their expertise in each of their respective areas. Readers will be enlightened with the exceptional information described in each of the chapters. The text is relevant, well-written, and engaging, and Eshun and Gurung are to be commended for an exceptional effort that will be a standard in the field." - David Matsumoto, San Francisco State University

"Specifically focusing on the work of counselors and clinicians, and especially oriented to students and trainees aspiring to careers in the helping professions, this volume provides a rich introduction to the multitude of ways in which culture shapes everyday life, its various challenges, and their solutions. Far from an abstract and empty notion, Eshun and Gurung's collection adds flesh, bones, and blood to the notion of 'culture' and offer persuasive illustrations of what is meant by the term 'cultural competence.'" Larry Davidson, Yale University

"Eshun, Gurung and their contributing scholars provide a broad overview of culture and mental health. The book is well worth considering for graduate courses in counseling psychology and related fields." Steven Lopez, University of Southern California

"Culture and Mental Health comes to grips with the complexities of the field without overwhelming or

"Overall, this book is well worth taking out from a local library." (Mental Health Practice, 1 November 2011)
 
"Culture and Mental Health is an extremely thought-provoking collection of commentaries containing a wealth of information within which all readers are bound to find something both new and informative to them in their practice....." (CNWL NHS Foundation Trust, November 2010)"This title is useful both in the library and in the classroom." (CHOICE, September 2009)