Beschreibung:
This handbook provides a review of relevant topics concerning the interface between culture and mental health, with a particular focus on child-rearing practices and transcultural issues in the perinatal period, infancy, and early childhood. It discusses how to work with infants and families from diverse backgrounds and addresses the most common issues that medical and mental health experts may encounter when working with individuals from other cultures. Chapters examine the considerable range of child-rearing strategies and how families from various cultural groups approach issues such as infant sleep, feeding practices, and care during pregnancy. In addition, chapters address conditions that are seen mostly within a particular sociocultural context and are "e;culture bound"e; syndromes or states. The handbook concludes with the editors' recommendations for future research directions.Topics featured in this handbook include:Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping within the clinical field.Cultural responses to infant crying and irritability.Cultural issues in response to chronic conditions and malformations in infancy.The healthy immigrant effect.The use of folk and traditionally therapeutic remedies.The Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early child development, child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, obstetrics, and nursing.
This handbook provides a review of relevant topics concerning the interface between culture and mental health, with a particular focus on child-rearing practices and transcultural issues in the perinatal period, infancy, and early childhood. It discusses how to work with infants and families from diverse backgrounds and addresses the most common issues that medical and mental health experts may encounter when working with individuals from other cultures. Chapters examine the considerable range of child-rearing strategies and how families from various cultural groups approach issues such as infant sleep, feeding practices, and care during pregnancy. In addition, chapters address conditions that are seen mostly within a particular sociocultural context and are “culture bound” syndromes or states. The handbook concludes with the editors’ recommendations for future research directions.
Topics featured in this handbook include:
- Prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping within the clinical field.
- Cultural responses to infant crying and irritability.
- Cultural issues in response to chronic conditions and malformations in infancy.
- The healthy immigrant effect.
- The use of folk and traditionally therapeutic remedies.
The Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in infancy and early child development, child and school psychology, pediatrics, social work, obstetrics, and nursing.
Part I . Conceptual and Background Issues.- Chapter 1. What are Cultures and a Cultural Frame of Mind in Clinical Interventions.- Chapter 2. What Parents Want for Their Children.- Chapter 3. Parent-Child Interaction and the Embodiment of Cultural Patterns: Commonalities and Differences.- Chapter 4. Prejudice, Discrimination, and Stereotyping.- Part II. Working with Families of Various Ethnic and Social Backgrounds: Common Issues, Challenges, and Misconceptions.- Chapter 5. Working with Hispanic Families During the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood.- Chapter 6. Working with African-American Families, Infants, and Young Children.- Chapter 7. Working with Euro-American Families in the United States During the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood.- Chapter 8. Working with Native American Families During the Perinatal Stage and Early Childhood.- Chapter 9. Working with Asian Families, Infants, and Young Children.- Chapter 10. Working with Families, Infants, and Young Children from the Middle East.- Part III. Cultural Variations in Specific Practices and Their Importance in Understanding Ourselves and Others.- Chapter 11. A Transcultural Model of Attachment and its Vicissitudes: Interventions based on Mentalization in Chile.- Chapter 12. Culture, Pregnancy, and Its Challenges.- Chapter 13. Culture, Sleep, and its Vicissitudes in the Perinatal Period and During Early Childhood.- Chapter 14. Culture and Eating in the Perinatal Period and During Early Childhood.- Chapter 15. Infant and Toddler Crying and Irritability: Cultural Meanings and Responses.- Chapter 16. Interpersonal Conflict and Discipline of the Young Child.- Chapter 17. Cultural Issues in Response to Young Children’s Illnesses, Chronic Conditions, Malformations, and their Management.- Part IV. Migration and Working in Mental Health with Families of Different Cultural Backgrounds.- Chapter 18. The Healthy Immigrant Effect and the Question of Acculturation.- Chapter 19. Working with Immigrants and Refugees.- Chapter 20. Culture-Bound Syndromes in the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood: Culturally Based Definitions of Disorder, Disease, and Cure.- Chapter 21. The Use of Folk Remedies and Traditional Therapeutic Strategies.- Chapter 22. Future Trends in Research and Practice.
