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Culture and Mental Health

This document discusses how culture influences mental health in three main ways: 1) How clients/service users experience and describe symptoms is shaped by culture through culture-bound syndromes, meanings ascribed to illness, family factors, coping styles, treatment-seeking behaviors, and stigma. 2) Professionals are influenced by their training, communication styles, lack of resources, and potential for bias and stereotyping. 3) Mental health services themselves are structured by each society through how they organize, deliver, and pay for services, and this can perpetuate structural racism, discrimination, poverty, and marginalization.

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Culture matters: Influence of Society and Culture on Mental Health
Why does culture matter? 2 Client / service user Mental health services Professional, i.e. social workers
1. Client / service user • Symptoms – culture-bound syndromes? • Presentation – how do the clients describe the symptoms? • ”Making sense of the illness”  the meanings they impart to their subjective experiences. • Family factors • Coping styles • Treatment seeking • Mistrust • Stigma • Immigration • Overall health 3
2. Professionals • Training, practice and institutions • Communication • Lack of resources in the primary care sector • Bias and stereotyping 4
3. Mental Health services • Every society influences mental health treatment by how it organizes, delivers, and pays for mental health services. • Structural racism and discrimination • Poverty • Marginalization 5
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AGREE, DISAGREE OR NOT SURE? 7
1. People should work out their own mental health problems. 8
2. Once you have a mental illness, you have it for life. 9
3. Females are more likely to have a mental illness than are males. 10
4. Medication is the best treatment for mental illness. 11
5. People with a mental illness are generally violent and dangerous. 12
6. Adults are more likely than teenagers to have a mental illness. 13
7. You can tell by looking at people whether they have a mental illness. 14
8. People with a mental illness are generally shy and quiet. 15
9. Mental illness only happens to certain kinds of people. 16
10. Most people will never be afected by mental illness. 17
STIGMA 18
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