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Mental Health and Cultural Diversity
PTSD - Universally Applicable?
Cultural Beliefs, Idioms of Distress and Culture-Bound Syndromes
The Role of Religion and Spirituality
One of the most contentious areas in the context of cross-cultural mental health is that of the use of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a diagnostic framework. There is much debate over its validity and usefulness in 'non-western' contexts, particularly as it relates to survivors of conflict, or political oppression. The arguments for and against are varied and complex. Within this section we have gathered a number of papers that relate to this issue. However, due to the limited number of 'freely accessible' online resources, we have been unable to reflect the true breadth and complexity of these arguments. We have therefore put together a bibliography in the hope that it may be used as a stepping stone to further reading.
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Stuvland, R., Durakovic-Belko, E., Kutlaca, M., 2001
Summerfield, D, BMJ 2001;322:95-98, 2001
Summerfield argues that personal recovery is grounded in social capacity building.
Hodes, M., 1998
Refugee children may need a lot of psychiatric help.(Editorial)
Owan, Tom Choken, Ed., 1996
This sourcebook contains 19 papers which discuss the mental health service needs of Southeast Asian refugees in the United States.
2006
Articles that discuss the mental health and psychological issues confronting forced migrants. One of the principal debates reflected in this literature is the validity of the PTSD concept for refugee and other forced migrant populations. Among other things, critics argue that PTSD is a Western concept which is often applied without regard for the cultural perspective of the affected individuals.
Gorst-Unsworth, C, 1992
Gorst-Unsworth presents a case study to illustrate the multiplicity of events and social factors that need to be taken into consideration before a diagnosis of PTSD is applied.
Marsella, A.J., Friedman, M.J., Spain, E.H., 1992
A review of over 150 publications on cross-cultural aspects of PTSD
Agger, I , in 'Refugee Experience-Psychosocial Training Module' Loughry, M., Ager, A (eds) , 2001
A critical review of current debate about universal versus culturally relative psychosocial interventions.
Smith, P., Perrin, S., Dyregrov, A., Yule, W., Personality and Individual Differences, February 2003, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 315-322(8) , 2002
An analytic paper which examines the factor structure of a revised version of the Impact of Event Scale in children in Mostar in 1996. The paper concludes that 'despite the paucity of research into cross-cultural aspects of PTSD in children, the evidence available suggests that stress reactions in children are not culture bound'.
Dyregrov, A., Gupta, L., Gjestad, R., Raundalen, M., 2002
This paper argues that 'although social and political dimensions in the understanding of trauma are important, some aspects of trauma are universal'.
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