Table Of ContentAdvances in Mental Health and Addiction
Series Editor: Masood Zangeneh
Masood Zangeneh
Alean Al-Krenawi Editors
Culture,
Diversity and
Mental Health
- Enhancing
Clinical Practice
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
Series Editor
Masood Zangeneh
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Masood Zangeneh • Alean Al-Krenawi
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Culture, Diversity
and Mental Health -
Enhancing Clinical Practice
Editors
Masood Zangeneh Alean Al-Krenawi
Liberal Arts & Science Spitzer Department of Social Work
& Innovative Learning Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Humber College Be’er Sheva, Israel
Toronto, ON, Canada
ISSN 2570-3390 ISSN 2570-3404 (electronic)
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
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Preface
If we have learned one thing from the many momentous events of the first two
decades of the twenty-first century, it is that our well-worn assumptions about peo-
ple and the cultures in which we live our lives are due for a fresh look.
Culture, Diversity and Mental Health - Enhancing Clinical Practice is designed
to help clinicians meet the complex needs of their clients at this time of critical
reflection. Seventeen chapters, each of which offers a fascinating discussion in its
own right, are assembled into a single volume of indispensable reading for today’s
practitioners. With its wide scope of important topics for clinical practice, Culture,
Diversity and Mental Health - Enhancing Clinical Practice covers issues ranging
from intersectionality to perceptions of disability, and from immigrant to Indigenous
populations.
Part I, Intersectionality and Disability, begins on a broad note with Bramesfeld,
Platt, and Bal’s chapter, “Mental Health, Multicultural Competence, and Cultural
Humility from an Intersectionality Framework.” Here, the reader is introduced to
the vital notion of going beyond individual categories of identity to understand how
identities intersect, affecting each other to produce experiences that critically mold
mental health outcomes. This idea of intersectionality is central to the second chap-
ter, “Archetypes of Black Womanhood: Implications for Mental Health, Coping and
Help-Seeking,” by Waldron. Setting forth stereotypical societal images of Black
women, the author demonstrates how these representations have harmed Black
women and contributed to the formation of a Black feminist consciousness that
emblematizes Black women’s position at the nexus of various social identities. The
chapter further discusses how this consciousness affects Black women’s experi-
ences with mental illness.
Laying the groundwork for wider treatment of mental and physical challenges,
Buettgen and Gorman’s chapter, “Disability Culture,” treats disability from a criti-
cal disability studies perspective. The authors explore and explode the myth of any
essential “disability” that exists outside of its historical, cultural, and social context.
In the final chapter of Part I, “Deaf Mental Health: Enhancing Linguistically and
Culturally Appropriate Clinical Practice,” Bone examines the health inequities of a
specific “disabled” community, namely the Deaf community. She reports on a range
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of barriers that Deaf people experience in accessing mental health services, includ-
ing audism and clinicians’ inadequate understanding of Deaf culture and language.
Moving to Part II, Immigrant and Indigenous Mental Health, in “Best Practices
and Research Perspectives Working with Immigrant Groups,” Mercado, Venta, and
Irizarry propose considering both cultural and psychological variables in an integra-
tive model of health for different immigrant groups, including Latino immigration
to the USA and global Middle Eastern and North African migrations. Following in
these footsteps, Khanlou, Khan, and Mill offer, in the next chapter, “A Health
Promotion Framework for Women with Precarious Immigration Status in Canada.”
The authors propose a tripartite “Health Promotion Framework for Women with
Precarious Immigration Status.” Next, in his examination of an extreme case of
immigrant mental health, in “Living in a Refugee Camp: The Syrian Case in Jordan”
Al-Krenawi tackles the searing context confronting Syrian refugee children in both
camp and non-camp settings, including child marriage, child labor, and gender-
based abuse. Concluding the immigrant section of Part II and narrowing the focus
to Syrian refugee women, in “Exploring an Islamically Integrated Peer Support
Model for Muslim Syrian Refugees,” Qasim and Hynie propose using the existing
social support found at mosques to provide this population with Islamically inte-
grated peer support groups as an alternative to traditional therapy.
Bridging the immigrant and Indigenous worlds, in “The Impact of Cultural
Beliefs on Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment,” Al-Krenawi shows how quality
mental health care for migrant and Indigenous communities alike requires, first and
foremost, culturally sensitive training for general health care workers.
Turning to Indigenous populations, Le Grande, Jackson, Ski, Thompson, and
Brown inform us in their chapter, “Depression, Cardiovascular Disease and
Indigenous Australians,” of mounting evidence on causal relationships between
psychological distress, depression, and cardiovascular disease in Indigenous
Australian communities. They specifically note intergenerational trauma and dis-
crimination as crucial determinants of well-being. In their own contribution,
“Culture Through a Clinical Lens,” Wesley-Esquimaux and Koptie engage with the
lived experiences of Indigenous people, presenting a model that uses a “medicine
wheel” developed by Wesley-Esquimaux to facilitate the identification of the impact
of trauma and the move towards healing. Continuing the exploration of Indigenous
mental health in “Trauma and Its Impacts,” Sutherland provides a lucid discussion
on Indigenous individuals’ and communities’ negativity towards governments and
authorities, which is an enduring and pervasive response to traumatic events such as
enslavement, being forced off land, and the policies and practices of assimilation.
Part III of the volume, Culture and Mental Health, opens with Srivastava and
Srivastava’s chapter “Supporting Post-Secondary Youth Mental Health through
Inclusive Practices Attuned to Culture.” The authors argue convincingly that cul-
tural competence and inclusivity constitute the primary keys to supporting the men-
tal health of post-secondary youth. Moving forward with the theme of mental health
and culture, in “A Cross-Cultural Study on Dimensions of Experiences of Shame
and Guilt between Mainland Chinese and Euro-Canadians” Hynie and Su present
their work on Chinese and European Canadian perceptions of shame and guilt. In
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“Social Capital and the Quality of Life of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum
Disorders: A Comparison between Bedouin Fathers and Mothers,” Manor-
Binyamini and Ka'abeya make a compelling case for increasing the “Quality of
Life” among Bedouin mothers of children with ASD—a population that lacks
“bridging and linking social capital,” compared to Bedouin fathers of children with
ASD. Part III—and the volume as a whole—ends with “Culture and Psychopathology:
Contributions of the Philosophical and Clinic Phenomenologies,” Moreira, Bloc,
Castelo, and Telles’ intriguing chapter on the relationship between psychopathol-
ogy and culture as seen through the prism of philosophical phenomenology (Maurice
Merleau-Ponty) and clinical phenomenology (Arthur Tatossian).
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Contents
Part I Intersectionality and Disability
1 Mental Health, Multicultural Competence, and Cultural
Humility from an Intersectionality Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Kosha D. Bramesfeld, Lisa F. Platt, and Jaspreet K. Bal
2 Archetypes of Black Womanhood: Implications for Mental
Health, Coping, and Help-Seeking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Ingrid R. G. Waldron
3 Disability Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Alexis Buettgen and Rachel Gorman
4 Deaf Mental Health: Enhancing Linguistically and Culturally
Appropriate Clinical Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Tracey A. Bone
Part II I mmigrant and Indigenous Mental Health
5 Best Practices and Research Perspectives with Immigrant
Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Alfonso Mercado, Amanda Venta, and Ricardo Irizarry
6 A Health Promotion Framework for Women with Precarious
Immigration Status in Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Nazilla Khanlou, Attia Khan, and Catriona Mill
7 Living in a Refugee Camp: The Syrian Case in Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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8 Exploring an Islamically Integrated Peer Support Model
for Muslim Syrian Refugees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Kashmala Qasim and Michaela Hynie
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9 The Impact of Cultural Beliefs on Mental Health Diagnosis
and Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
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10 Depression, Cardiovascular Disease and Indigenous
Australians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
M. Le Grande, A. C. Jackson, C. F. Ski, D. R. Thompson,
and A. Brown
11 Culture Through a Clinical Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Cynthia C. Wesley-Esquimaux and Steven Koptie
12 Trauma and Its Impacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Stewart Sutherland
Part III C ulture and Mental Health
13 Supporting Post-secondary Youth Mental Health Through
Inclusive Practices Attuned to Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Rani Srivastava and Raman Srivastava
14 A Cross-Cultural Study on the Experience of Shame and Guilt . . . . 243
Chang Su and Michaela Hynie
15 A Cross-Cultural Study on Dimensions of Experiences
of Shame and Guilt Between Mainland Chinese and
Euro-Canadians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Chang Su and Michaela Hynie
16 Social Capital and the Quality of Life of Parents of Children
with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Comparison Between
Bedouin Fathers and Mothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Iris Manor-Binyamini and Fares Ka’Abeya
17 Culture and Psychopathology: Contributions of the
Philosophical and Clinic Phenomenologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Virginia Moreira, Lucas Bloc, and Thabata Castelo Branco Telles
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
