Culture permeates human activity the world over. In today's technological "global village," people from very different cultures are interacting more closely and more often than ever -- making it critical for clinicians to understand and incorporate cultural dimensions into their daily practices.
This volume offers a contemporary pragmatic understanding of how culture is inextricably intertwined with mental health and mental illness. 
In Chapter 1, the 17-member GAP Committee on Cultural Psychiatry begins by discussing the history (particularly within the last two decades) and scope of culture in clinical psychiatry. 
In Chapter 2, the authors describe 11 selected cultural variables that strongly influence clinical work: ethnic identity, race, gender and sexual orientations, age, religion, migration and country of origin, socioeconomic status, acculturation and acculturative processes, language, dietary influences, and education. 
In Chapter 3, the authors present a brief history and detailed analysis of the Cultural Formulation, the newest instrument for ensuring thorough clinical assessments, explaining its clinical use based on DSM-IV guidelines.
In Chapter 4, the authors integrate the 11 cultural variables described in Chapter 2 with the use of the Cultural Formulation described in Chapter 3, producing an extraordinary cross-section of case vignettes: ? How the son of Irish Catholic immigrants struggles to reconcile old-country traditions with life in modern American society? The sometimes painful and always complex process and outcomes of acculturation for a Pakistani Muslim family who had come to the United States for only a temporary period but ended up staying permanently? Diagnosing social phobia in an Asian American, whose traditional reticence must be viewed within the context of Asian culture ? Loss of country of origin and family ties as catalysts leading to significant behavioral changes and severe depressive symptoms in an African immigrant tribesman from Kenya and the cultural context of his recovery? The interplay of gender, age, and religion with developmental issues, personality organization, and symptom development for a "good Catholic girl" ? The existential, interpersonal, and clinical experiences of a Protestant minister from predominantly Catholic Ecuador, who came to the United States as pastor of an Hispanic church in a predominantly white city 
In Chapter 5, the authors conclude with a summary and suggestions regarding the complex issues raised by a thorough cultural assessment.
Enhanced by a detailed index, this powerful work meets the significant -- and rapidly growing -- need for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to understand the role of culture in psychiatry and to integrate this knowledge into their practice so that they can provide the most comprehensive and useful care to their patients.

Cultural Assessment in Clinical Psychiatry (GAP REPORT (GROUP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHIATRY))

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry

Psychology & Counseling

Group for the Advancement

What role does coercion play in psychiatric treatment? Does it increase or decrease the chances for successful outcome?
Forced Into Treatment discusses various aspects of coercion ranging from the role of coercion in initiation psychiatric treatment to its effect on treatment process and outcome. The book demonstrated that a patient who is appropriately forced into treatment can more from initial defiance, through reluctant compliance, to a successful therapeutic alliance and a successful outcome.
In addition, Forced Into Treatment addresses ? the role of coercion, power, and authority in socializing children? the use of coercive social pressure as a motivation to seek help? the effects of court-ordered treatment for people who have refused psychiatric help? the historical and legal aspects regarding coercive treatment

Forced into Treatment: The Role of Coercion in Clinical Practice (GAP REPORT (GROUP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PSYCHIATRY))

Medical Books

Medicine

The book presents an overview of adolescent suicidal behavior. It explores risk factors, the identification and evaluation of the suicidal adolescent, and approaches to therapy. It offers both historical and cross-cultural perspectives, the relevance of suicide to adolescent development, and mental health training needs regarding suicidality.

Adolescent Suicide

Self-Help

Committee on Adolescence

Death & Grief

In this work, the Child Psychiatry Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry has compiled the conclusions of new research, under publicized studies, and hard-to-find governmental reports on the development of psychopathology in children. Only through such longitudinal studies can we examine early personality traits and behavior that may lead to serious psychopathology later in life and identify effective prevention methods. 
This report ? Reviews several studies of early therapeutic school-based prevention programs such as Head Start, the New Haven School Development Program, Project Giant Step, Success for All, and preschool intervention programs? Examines issues related to the effects of environmental stress and of medical issues on developing psychopathology? Reviews the effects of mentally ill parents on a child's development, including both stress and heredity factors? Presents studies of the outcome of pathology for children with specific psychiatric diagnoses, such as in children with chronic medical illnesses, childhood traumas, mood and anxiety disorders, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorders, and eating disorders? Considers the effects of race, gender, and comorbidity on later development of pathology? Provides insight into the long-term effects of a child's disorder on other family members and presents research that helps us understand which childhood mental health problems children outgrow and which lead to later psychopathology 
This invaluable resource consolidates current knowledge about the factors promoting or deterring children's development toward healthy adulthood. It is especially helpful in assisting practitioners with clinical decision making.

In the Long Run. . .Longitudinal Studies of Psychopathology in Children (GAP Report #143)

AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION

Psychiatry, Committee on Child

Mental Health

Drawing on real-life cases as well as research data, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate distills the current psychiatric knowledge of different forms of murder within the family. Although crimes of this sort have made headlines for decades -- and although violence and homicide within the family are public health issues -- little guidance exists in the research literature for mental health professionals who treat these families or for the child protection workers and lawyers who interact with them.
This book offers a unique framework for examining the various types of family murder -- delving into the commonalities, the differences, and society's misconceptions and providing readers with a comprehensive guide to begin to understand these tragedies.
Ten forensic psychiatrists, who among them have interviewed hundreds of perpetrators and thousands of individuals affected by family violence, examine crimes such as intimate partner homicide, feticide, child murder by parents, siblicide, and intimate partner homicide in elderly populations as they discuss ? Epidemiology and public health implications? Various motivations for each subtype of family murder? Psychiatric assessment issues (e.g., risk assessments, sanity evaluations)? Means of prevention? Aftermath of these homicides, including sentencing of and working with the perpetrator 
No other single source gathers this amount of detailed research and psychiatric experience about every type of murder in the family. With a case-based learning approach supplemented by expert analysis, Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate is an indispensable resource for mental health

Family Murder: Pathologies of Love and Hate

M.D.

Susan Hatters Friedman

This book helps the psychiatrist navigate through the legal system.

The Mental Health Professional and the Legal System

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