Cultural factors influencing mental health help-seeking attitudes among Black English-Speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States and Britain
| Autor: | Dexter R. Voisin, Liz S. Alexander, Kathryn R. Berringer, Cordelle B. Yorke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
030505 public health
business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Stigma (botany) Caribbean immigrants Affect (psychology) Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health Help-seeking 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Middle Eastern Mental Health Issues & Syndromes Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business Social psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Meaning (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | Social Work in Mental Health. 14:174-194 |
| ISSN: | 1533-2993 1533-2985 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15332985.2014.943832 |
| Popis: | This review examines factors related to professional mental health help-seeking among Black English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States and Britain. Findings emphasize that attention to cultural context is essential to understanding the ways these populations conceptualize mental illness, and is also key in the development of effective and culturally responsive mental health services. Various groups of Black English-speaking Caribbean immigrants seek out informal help, and utilize spiritual beliefs and ritual practices as social supports and systems of meaning in times of psychological distress, which may affect their utilization of formal mental health systems. Additionally, culturally specific notions of stigma around the concept of “mental illness” are likely to deter help-seeking, or render various forms of treatment ineffective and threatening. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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