Mental Health Professionals, Minorities and the Poor

by Illovsky,Michael E.

• ISBN13: 9780415935760
• ISBN10: 0415935768
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-27
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Mental Health Professionals, Minorities, and the Poorprovides mental health professionals with information essential to the accurate assessment and effective treatment of diverse populations. Focusing on social, political, and economic aspects--often-overlooked factors that impact mental health--Michael Illovsky compels clinicians to reconsider the currently available treatment models and proposes a new model that takes into consideration the increasing significance of culture in counseling and therapy. With world populations becoming increasingly heterogeneous, and interactions among people from different cultures steadily increasing, as inevitably they must, this book is a critical resource for ethnic minorities in treatment, their friends and relatives concerned with their welfare, and students and professionals faced with the challenge of treating diverse populations.

Author Biography

Michael E. Illovsky, Ph.D., is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, National Certified Counselor, and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. He is an Associate Director and Professor at Western Illinois University

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Terms Used	5	(4)
Factors to Consider When Providing Services to Cross-Cultural Persons	9	(54)
Differences That Might Mitigate Therapeutic Effects When Counseling Minorities	9	(21)
Solutions to Consider	30	(10)
Selection of Mental Health Professionals, Training, Power, and Politics	40	(6)
Ethics	46	(1)
Insights from Assessment	47	(2)
Mental Health Training and the Poor	49	(1)
Necessary and Sufficient Skills	50	(6)
Power Dynamics	56	(7)
Minority Mental Health Research	63	(22)
Minorities in the General Mental Health Literature	63	(1)
Minority Mental Health Research	64	(2)
Culture and Psychopathology	66	(4)
Analyses of Minority Mental Health Research	70	(4)
Ethnic Group Classification	74	(2)
Misuse of Minority Data Reporting	76	(9)
Using Technology	85	(16)
Human Impediments	86	(4)
Minority Education, Training, and Community Development	90	(11)
Evolutionary Psychology---with Cross-Cultural Applications	101	(24)
Evolution (Biological)	103	(1)
Evolutionary Psychology	104	(4)
Mental Disorders	108	(5)
Evolutionary Approaches to Cross-Cultural Therapy	113	(7)
Explanations of Racism	120	(5)
Special Populations: Sexual Orientation, Disabilities, Children, Women, and Older Persons	125	(48)
Sexual Orientation/Homosexuality	127	(6)
Minorities with Disabilites	133	(6)
Ethnic Minority Children	139	(4)
Ethnic Minority Women	143	(10)
Ethnic Minority Older Persons	153	(6)
Minorities in Rural Areas	159	(2)
Middle-Class Minorities	161	(2)
Goals, Plans, Solutions, and Recommendations	163	(10)
World Mental Health---It Isn't the Fault of the Minorities and the Poor	173	(22)
Why Study the Conditions of Other Cultures in the World?	173	(2)
Why and How Do Inequities Exist?	175	(6)
World Mental Health of Minorities and the Poor	181	(4)
Findings and Solutions	185	(10)
Concluding Remarks	195	(20)
Scholarship and Action	195	(2)
Therapy and Action	197	(2)
Institutional Skills	199	(1)
Counseling Models	200	(2)
Contributions of Other Cultures	202	(10)
Universal Perspective	212	(3)
References	215	(42)
Index	257