Download or read book Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization by Iu Mien Americans written by Lai F. Saechao and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of culture has significant implications for mental health services and treatments for Southeast Asians. The Iu-Mien who immigrated as refugees of war from Laos experienced tremendous amounts of trauma prior to arriving in the United States. Many had direct exposure to war trauma, experienced pre and post migration trauma and acculturation stress. While mental illnesses are evident in the Mien community then and now, many do not seek services. This research project examined the low utilization rates of the Mien for mental health services as well as the cultural beliefs, values, attitudes, and behavior that may affect their utilizations. The findings from this study revealed that traditional methods of healings remain in practice in conjunction with Western treatments.
Download or read book Knowledge on Mental Health Service Utilization Amongst Iu Mien Adults written by Cheng Ton Saetern and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information pertaining to mental health needs of Southeast Asians residing in the United States is limited but growing. There is still very limited literature on the Iu-Mien, and little to none is known about them in this country. In many mental health studies, there is a tendency of grouping all persons of Asian descent together and, therefore, the empirical literature does not sufficiently address the mental health needs in specific subgroups. This research project focused on the current knowledge the Iu-Mien possess about mental illness and the factors causing underutilization. Despite evidence of mental health needs for Iu-Mien people, most do not present for mental health services. Finding from the study revealed that there is still inadequate knowledge and perceptions of mental illness within the Iu-Mien community and there are not sufficient Iu-Mien language interpreters to meet the needs of the Iu-Mien people.
Download or read book Perceptions of Mental Illness Among Iu Mien Americans written by Sat Cooc and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Support and Mental Health Service Utilization Among Immigrants in the United States written by Amelia Seraphia Derr and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants face unique challenges that reflect their exit circumstances, the migration process, and the context of reception in the United States. Stressors stemming from immigration may exacerbate underlying health or mental health concerns or initiate new problems, placing immigrants at risk for decreased wellbeing. Usual coping mechanisms and support systems that may help deal with migration stressors are often disturbed by the process of leaving a home country and reestablishing roots elsewhere. How and if these support systems are reestablished may have implications for immigrant health and mental health outcomes. Previous research indicates that, despite an established need, immigrants access mental health services at lower rates than nonimmigrants. Social relationships can help navigate barriers to mental health care and facilitate access to needed services. This dissertation examines these issues by asking three questions: 1. What is the current empirical knowledge about immigrant mental health service use in the United States? 2. Do immigrants have unique patterns of social support and are they different than those of nonimmigrants? 3. Do specific types of social support influence rate and type of mental health service use among immigrants? Chapter 1 provides a systematic literature review of the current empirical knowledge on mental health service utilization among immigrants. Findings suggest that immigrants have disproportionately low rates of mental health service use compared to nonimmigrants and face many barriers to accessing services. Informal networks such as family, friends, and religious leaders are particularly important sources of support for immigrants and may be promising sites for collaborative efforts with more formal mental health service systems. Chapter 2 explores the heterogeneity of immigrant experiences of social support using data from the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). Results show that being an immigrant is predictive of having low levels of support from family, friends, and religious sources. Finally, Chapter 3 builds on the findings from Chapter 2 by examining whether different types of social support predict mental health service use among immigrants. Results show that social support profile was predictive of mental health service use from religious leaders, human service professionals, alternative practitioners, and any provider in a non-health care setting. Immigrants with weak social support were less likely than nonimmigrants to use mental health services from any of these providers. Immigrants with support from religious sources were more likely to seek mental health care from religious leaders or alternative practitioners. Taken together, findings from these three chapters point to the need for interventive efforts to strengthen social support networks for immigrants and collaboratory efforts between formal and informal mental health service systems. Implications for social work practice with immigrants and refugees and future research are discussed.
Download or read book Asian American Mental Health written by Karen Kurasaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American Mental Health is a state-of-the-art compendium of the conceptual issues, empirical literature, methodological approaches, and practice guidelines for conducting culturally informed assessments of Asian Americans, and for assessing provider cultural competency within individuals and systems. It is the first of its kind on Asian Americans. This volume draws upon the expertise of many of the leading experts in Asian American and multicultural mental health to provide a much needed resource for students and professionals in a wide range of disciplines including clinical psychology, medical anthropology, psychiatry, cross-cultural psychology, multicultural counseling, ethnic minority psychology, sociology, social work, counselor education, counseling psychology, and more.
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race Ethnicity and Language Data written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.
Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edible Insects written by Arnold van Huis and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edible insects have always been a part of human diets, but in some societies there remains a degree of disdain and disgust for their consumption. Although the majority of consumed insects are gathered in forest habitats, mass-rearing systems are being developed in many countries. Insects offer a significant opportunity to merge traditional knowledge and modern science to improve human food security worldwide. This publication describes the contribution of insects to food security and examines future prospects for raising insects at a commercial scale to improve food and feed production, diversify diets, and support livelihoods in both developing and developed countries. It shows the many traditional and potential new uses of insects for direct human consumption and the opportunities for and constraints to farming them for food and feed. It examines the body of research on issues such as insect nutrition and food safety, the use of insects as animal feed, and the processing and preservation of insects and their products. It highlights the need to develop a regulatory framework to govern the use of insects for food security. And it presents case studies and examples from around the world. Edible insects are a promising alternative to the conventional production of meat, either for direct human consumption or for indirect use as feedstock. To fully realise this potential, much work needs to be done by a wide range of stakeholders. This publication will boost awareness of the many valuable roles that insects play in sustaining nature and human life, and it will stimulate debate on the expansion of the use of insects as food and feed.
Download or read book Stress and Emotional Health written by John Rush and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-08-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western medicine, including psychiatry and psychology, has had a virtual monopoly of the health industry. This has led to economic incentives that literally keep people sick. Anthropologists, because of their holistic and comparative base, are in a unique position to apply their knowledge within clinical settings. Written for anthropologists, but useful to all clinicians, Rush's book offers a new model for understanding health and illness, provides a review of techniques found in many cultures for reducing individual and system stress, and offers processes for recovering health and individual and social balance. Rush establishes a model outlining the development of emotional problems and then offers the clinicial tools and techniques for helping individuals, families, and groups reduce stress and retranslate traumatic or distressing events. The reader will discover a very different view of emotional and physical stress; the approach taken is informational and anthropological in nature. From this approach arise numerous techniques designed to help clients achieve stress reduction and enhanced healing.
Download or read book Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asians written by Lorraine T. Benuto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To effectively serve minority clients, clinicians require a double understanding: of both evidence-based practice and the cultures involved. This particularly holds true when working with Asian-Americans, a diverse and growing population. The Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asians synthesizes real-world challenges, empirical findings, clinical knowledge and common-sense advice to create a comprehensive framework for practice. This informed resource is geared toward evaluation of first-generation Asian Americans and recent immigrants across assessment methods (self-report measures, projective tests), settings (school, forensic) and classes of disorders (eating, substance, sexual). While the Guide details cross-cultural considerations for working with Chinese-, Japanese-, Korean and Indian-American clients, best practices are also included for assessing members of less populous groups without underestimating, overstating or stereotyping the role of ethnicity in the findings. In addition, contributors discuss diversity of presentation within groups and identify ways that language may present obstacles to accurate evaluation. Among the areas covered in this up-to-date reference: Structured and semi-structured clinical interviews. Assessment of acculturation, enculturation and culture. IQ testing. Personality disorders. Cognitive decline and dementia. Mood disorders and suicidality. Neuropsychological assessment of children, adolescents and adults. Culture-bound syndromes. Designed for practitioners new to working with Asian clients as well as those familiar with the population, the Guide to Psychological Assessment with Asians is exceedingly useful to neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, health psychologists and clinical social workers.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Iu Mien written by Patricia Moore-Howard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life written by Erving Goffman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and cotnrol the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.
Download or read book Yearbook of Immigration Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 1720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrant and Refugee Families written by Jaime Ballard and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences uses a family systems lens to discuss challenges and strengths of immigrant and refugee families in the United States. Chapters address immigration policy, human rights issues, economic stress, mental health and traumatic stress, domestic violence, substance abuse, family resilience, and methods of integration."--Open Textbook Library.
