The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health

Part I. Specific Populations

1. Mental Health of Arab Americans: Cultural Considerations for Excellence of Care
Imad Melhem, Zeina Chemali

2. Identification and Approach to Treatment of Mental Health Disorders in Asian American Populations
Shirin Ali

3. Cultural Sensitivity: What Should We Understand About Latinos?
Aida L. Jiménez, Margarita Alegría, Richard F. Camino-Gaztambide, Lazaro V. Zayas

4. Not by Convention: Working with People on the Sexual and Gender Continuum
Karen Ron-Li Liaw, Aron Janssen

5. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Perspectives
Joseph E. Trimble, Jeff King, Teresa D. LaFromboise, Dolores Subia BigFoot, Dennis Norman

6. Psychiatry for People of African Descent in the USA
Carl Bell, Dominica F. McBride

7. Understanding the Mental Health of Refugees: Trauma, Stress, and the Cultural Context
B. Heidi Ellis, Kate Murray, Colleen Barrett

Part II. Innovative Ways to Understand Diversity

8. Diversity Dialogue: An Innovative Model for Diversity Training
Estee Sharon, Anne Emmerich, Ranna Parekh

9. The Engagement Interview Protocol (EIP): Improving the Acceptance of Mental Health Treatment among Culturally Diverse Populations
Albert Yeung, Nhi-Ha Trinh, Trina Chang

10. Cultural and Diversity Issues in Mediation and Negotiation
David A. Hoffman, Katherine Triantafillou

11. Providing Medical Care to Diverse Populations
Deborah Washington, Robert Doyle

12. Cultivating Courage, Compassion, and Cultural Sensitivity in News Reporting of Mental Health
Linda R. Ocasio, Karen Weintraub

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy