International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice: Case Studies and Commentaries

✍ Scribed by Drozdstoy Stoyanov, Bill Fulford, Giovanni Stanghellini, Werdie Van Staden, Michael TH Wong

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 415
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This open access book offers essential information on values-based practice (VBP): the clinical skills involved, teamwork and person-centered care, links between values and evidence, and the importance of partnerships in shared decision-making. Different cultures have different values; for example, partnership in decision-making looks very different, from the highly individualized perspective of European and North American cultures to the collective and family-oriented perspectives common in South East Asia. In turn, African cultures offer yet another perspective, one that falls between these two extremes (called batho pele).
The book will benefit everyone concerned with the practical challenges of delivering mental health services. Accordingly, all contributions are developed on the basis of case vignettes, and cover a range of situations in which values underlie tensions or uncertainties regarding how to proceed in clinical practice. Examples include the patient’s autonomy and best interest, the physician’s commitment to establishing high standards of clinical governance, clinical versus community best interest, institutional versus clinical interests, patients insisting on medically unsound but legal treatments etc. Thus far, VBP publications have mainly dealt with clinical scenarios involving individual values (of clinicians and patients). Our objective with this book is to develop a model of VBP that is culturally much broader in scope. As such, it offers a vital resource for mental health stakeholders in an increasingly inter-connected world. It also offers opportunities for cross-learning in values-based practice between cultures with very different clinical care traditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Surprised by Values: An Introduction to Values-Based Practice and the Use of Personal Narratives in This Book (Bill Fulford)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Migration Narratives: An Introduction to Part I, Exemplars (Bill Fulford)....Pages 17-25
Antonella: ‘A Stranger in the Family’—A Case Study of Eating Disorders Across Cultures (Vincenzo Di Nicola)....Pages 27-35
The Role of Culture, Values and Trauma in Shaping Abnormal Bodily Experience in Migrants (Massimiliano Aragona)....Pages 37-44
Premorbid Personality and Expatriation as Possible Risk Factors for Brief Psychotic Disorder: A Case Report from Post-Soviet Bulgaria (S. P. Popov, M. Y. Mantarkov)....Pages 45-50
Front Matter ....Pages 51-51
Theory First: An Introduction to Part II, Theory (Bill Fulford)....Pages 53-58
The Will to Beauty as a Therapeutic Agent: Aesthetic Values in the Treatment of Addictive Disorders (Oliver Scheibenbogen, Michael Musalek)....Pages 59-67
Anorexia as Religion: Ocularcentrism as a Cultural Value and a Compensation Strategy in Persons with Eating Disorders (Giovanni Stanghellini, Milena Mancini)....Pages 69-75
Ethos, Embodiment, Psychosis: Losing One’s Home-Identity Stakes (Michèle Gennart)....Pages 77-83
African Personhood, Humanism, and Critical Sankofaism: The Case of Male Suicide in Ghana (Camillia Kong)....Pages 85-93
Madness, Mythopoetry and Medicine (Temitope Ademosu, Tutiette Thomas, Sola Adebiyi)....Pages 95-102
Inside and Out: How Western Patriarchal Cultural Contexts Shape Women’s Relationships with Their Bodies (Hillary Lianna McBride, Janelle Lynne Kwee)....Pages 103-108
Spiritual, Religious and Ethical Values in a Suicidal Individual (Ana Cristina Lopes, Diogo Telles Correia)....Pages 109-115
Cultural Values, Religion and Psychosis: Five Short Stories (Michael TH Wong, Fiona Wilson, Dennisa Davidson, Caitlin Hick, Andrew Howie)....Pages 117-125
Front Matter ....Pages 127-127
Vectors of Best Practice: An Introduction to Part III, Practice (Bill Fulford)....Pages 129-138
Cross-Cultural Factors and Identity in Adolescence (Vanya Matanova, Anna Hristova)....Pages 139-147
Multidisciplinary Teamwork and the Insanity Defence: A Case of Infanticide in Iraq (Hasanen Al-Taiar)....Pages 149-153
Colonial Values and Asylum Care in Brazil: Reclaiming the Streets Through Carnival in Rio de Janeiro (Julia Evangelista, William A. Fulford)....Pages 155-161
Alcohol Use Disorder in a Culture That Normalizes the Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages: The Conflicts for Decision-Making (Guilherme (G) Messas, Maria Julia (MJFR) Soares)....Pages 163-170
Living at the Edge of Compromise: Balkan Pluralism as a Resource for Balanced Decision-Making (Drozdstoy Stoyanov, Bill Fulford)....Pages 171-178
“Thinking Too Much”: A Clash of Legitimate Values in Clinical Practice Calls for an Indaba Guided by African Values-Based Practice (Werdie Van Staden)....Pages 179-187
Three Points in Time: How Values and Culture Affected My Life, Madness and the People Around Me (David Crepaz-Keay)....Pages 189-196
Recovery and Cultural Values: On Our Own Terms (A Dialogue) (Justine Keen, Richard J. Shaw)....Pages 197-205
Front Matter ....Pages 207-207
Linking Science with People: An Introduction to Part IV, Science (Bill Fulford)....Pages 209-219
A Cross-Cultural Values-Based Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative (Conversion) Disorders (Anna Todeva-Radneva, Asen Beshkov)....Pages 221-227
Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder or Neuroenhancement of Socially Accepted Modesty? The Case of Ms. Suzuki (Eisuke Sakakibara)....Pages 229-235
Non-traditional Religion, Hyper-Religiosity and Psychopathology: The Story of Ivan from Bulgaria (I. Mitrev, M. Y. Mantarkov)....Pages 237-243
Journey into Genes: Cultural Values and the (Near) Future of Genetic Counselling in Mental Health (David Crepaz-Keay, Jehannine Austin, Lauren Weeks)....Pages 245-255
Policy-Making Indabas to Prevent “Not Listening”: An Added Recommendation from the Life Esidimeni Tragedy (Samuel Ujewe, Werdie Van Staden)....Pages 257-262
Covert Treatment in a Cross-Cultural Setting (Neil Pickering)....Pages 263-271
Discouragement Towards Seeking Health Care of Older People in Rural China: The Influence of Culture and Structural Constraints (Xiang Zou)....Pages 273-278
Discovering Myself, a Journey of Rediscovery (Waldo Roeg)....Pages 279-284
Front Matter ....Pages 285-285
Training for Task: An Introduction to Part V, Training (Bill Fulford)....Pages 287-295
Values-Based Practice When Engaging with Voice-Hearers (Rosalind Austin)....Pages 297-304
Dharma Therapy: A Buddhist Counselling Approach to Acknowledging and Enhancing Perspectives, Attitudes and Values (Sik Hin Hung, Jennifer Yim Shui Wa)....Pages 305-311
Dangerous Liaisons: Science, Tradition, and Qur’anic Healing in the Dakhla Oasis of Egypt (Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, Werdie Van Staden)....Pages 313-318
Know Thyself: Jane Discovers the Value of Her Depression (Tamara Kayali Browne)....Pages 319-324
Case Studies in the Culture of Professional Football Players and Mental Welfare and Wellbeing (Michael Bennett)....Pages 325-329
Sexual Orientation Change Efforts and VBP (Taryn Knox)....Pages 331-339
Values, Meanings, Hermeneutics and Mental Health (Michael TH Wong)....Pages 341-349
Disha: Building Bridges-Removing Barriers: Where Excluded and Privileged Young Adults Meet (Sadhana Natu)....Pages 351-357
Online Counseling “The World Without a Label” (Lejla Kuralić-Ćišić, Meliha Bijedić, Irma Dobrinjic, Nermina Kravić, Aida Duraković, Dajana Stajić)....Pages 359-364
Front Matter ....Pages 365-365
The Realpolitik of Values-Based Practice: An Introduction to Part VI, Reflections (Bill Fulford)....Pages 367-377
Reflections on the Impact of Mental Health Ward Staff Training in Race Equality and Values-Based Practice (Kim Woodbridge-Dodd, Evette A. Hunkins-Hutchinson)....Pages 379-389
Connecting Patients, Practitioners and Regulators in Supporting Positive Experiences and Processes of Shared Decision-Making: A Case Study in Co-production (Fiona Browne, Steven Bettles, Stacey Clift, Tim Walker)....Pages 391-401
Beyond the Color Bar: Sharing Narratives in Order to Promote a Clearer Understanding of Mental Health Issues Across Cultural and Racial Boundaries (Colin King, Simon Clarke, Steven Gillard, Bill Fulford)....Pages 403-409
Co-writing Values: What We Did and Why We Did It (Bill Fulford)....Pages 411-423
Back Matter ....Pages 425-436

✦ Subjects

Medicine & Public Health; Psychiatry; Psychology, general; Ethics