Mounting evidence indicates that there are mental health disparities in the United States that
disadvantage racial/ethnic minorities in medical and mental health settings. Less is known …

Objective: Many anti‐stigma programmes use the 'mental illness is an illness like any
other'approach. This review evaluates the effectiveness of this approach in relation to …

The Outline for Cultural Formulation (OCF) introduced with DSM-IV provided a framework for
clinicians to organize cultural information relevant to diagnostic assessment and treatment …

The effectiveness of medical treatment depends on the quality of the patient–clinician
relationship. It has been proposed that this depends on the extent to which the patient and …

A Canadian Federal court recently impugned the administering of 5 risk assessment
instruments with Canadian Aboriginal prisoners. The ramifications of the ruling for the field …

Subscribers to the medical model of the causation of madness and distress emphasise the
role of genes and can severely underestimate the impact of traumatic events on the …

The present study sought to examine whether racial/ethnic differences exist in stigmatizing
attitudes towards people with mental illness among community college students. Multiple …

Understanding culture's impact on mental health and its treatment is extremely important,
especially in light of recent reports highlighting the realities of health disparities and unequal …

Winner of Medical Journalists' Association Specialist Readership Award 2010 Recovery is
widely endorsed as a guiding principle of mental health policy. Recovery brings new rules …

Background: Studies of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for schizophrenia demonstrate
that African-Caribbean and Black African patients have higher dropout rates and poor …