Mental Health Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth

Mental Health Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth
Author: Beverley Heidi Ellis
Publisher: Concise Guides on Trauma Care
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781433831492

This book provides a framework to guide mental health providers who work with refugees and immigrants. Nearly 70 million people today are refugees or forcibly-displaced migrants. More than half of them are children suffering from the effects of dislocation and violence. The authors describe the unique needs and challenges of serving these populations, and offer concrete steps for providing evidence-based, culturally-responsive care. Using the socioecological model, the authors conceptualize the developing child as living within concentric circles that include family, school, neighborhood, and society, embedded within a cultural context. Mental health providers identify and provide targeted support to combat disruptions within any or all of these ecological layers. Chapters examine the complex ways in which culture impacts the refugee experience, barriers to engagement in mental health practice and strategies for overcoming them, assessment, collaborative and integrated mental health interventions, and efforts to increase resilience in children, families, and communities. The book is an essential guide for mental health providers, and all who seek to help children in need.

Psychotherapy for Immigrant Youth

Psychotherapy for Immigrant Youth
Author: Sita Patel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-02-02
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319246933

This book provides an in-depth, practical, and cutting-edge summary of psychotherapy for immigrant children and adolescents. This text integrates practical therapeutic methods with current empirical knowledge on the unique life stressors and mental health concerns of immigrant youth, proving essential for all who seek to address the psychological needs of this vulnerable and under-served population. Specific chapters are devoted to trauma, refugees and forced displacement, cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychopharmacological issues, school-based treatment, family. Each chapter includes specific cultural concerns and treatment techniques for immigrant groups from various regions of the world. In-depth case examples illustrate case formulation, how and when to use specific techniques, challenges faced in the treatment of immigrant youth, and responses to common obstacles. With detailed theory and practice guidelines, Psychotherapy for Immigrant Youth is a vital resource for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other practitioners.

Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health

Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health
Author: Eugenio M. Rothe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0190661704

This book outlines the various psychosocial impacts of immigration on cultural identity and its impact on mainstream culture. It examines how cultural identity fits into individual mental health and has to be taken into account in treatment.

Preventing Adolescent Depression

Preventing Adolescent Depression
Author: Jami F. Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190243198

Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training (IPT-AST) is a program that teaches communication and interpersonal problem-solving skills to improve relationships and prevent the development of depression in adolescents. IPT-AST was developed to be delivered in schools and other community settings where adolescents are most likely to receive services, with the hope that IPT-AST can help prevent depression and other problem behaviors before they become more severe. Preventing Adolescent Depression: Interpersonal Psychotherapy-Adolescent Skills Training provides a detailed description of the program to guide mental health practitioners to implement IPT-AST. Session-by-session descriptions specify the structure and content of each session. Examples of how group leaders can discuss specific topics are provided throughout the book, and the appendix includes session outlines, communication notecards, cue cards, and more. Chapters also outline key issues related to implementation of IPT-AST, including selecting adolescents to participate in group; conducting IPT-AST in schools, primary care offices, mental health clinics, and other diverse settings; working with adolescents at varying levels of risk for depression; and dealing with common clinical issues. Finally, the book outlines the research on this depression prevention program. Preventing Adolescent Depression is appropriate for a wide variety of mental health practitioners including psychologists, social workers, and school counselors.

Immigrant and Refugee Families

Immigrant and Refugee Families
Author: Jaime Ballard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2016
Genre: Immigrant families
ISBN:

"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.

Radical Psychology

Radical Psychology
Author: Susan O. Gelberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1498553699

Radical Psychology outlines the psychological factors that shape multicultural competency and social justice effectiveness, such as implicit and explicit biases, difficulties in accurate self-assessment of cultural competency and social justice skills, and the historical biases that continue to shape Western psychological training and practice. This book provides a challenging balance between research and professional reflections in order to appeal to readers with different cultural backgrounds and learning styles. The diversity of the contributors underscores the need to include cultural experts as side-by-side colleagues, consultants, and supervisors in order to help Western psychologists expand their professional cultural paradigms and worldviews. This book is recommended for psychologists, counselors, educators, researchers, social workers, substance abuse counselors, administrators, students, and mental health agencies.

Immigrants and Refugees

Immigrants and Refugees
Author: Vamik D. Volkan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429914776

Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world, globalisation, advances in communication technology, fast travel, terrorism and now the refugee crisis make psychoanalytic investigation of the Other a major necessity. Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them. In Part 1, case examples illustrate the impact of traumatic experiences, group identity issues, and how traumas embedded in the experience of immigrants and refugees can be passed down from one generation to the next. Part 2 focuses on the host countries, considering the evolution of prejudice and how fear of newcomers can affect everything from international politics to the way we behave as individuals. Volkan also considers the psychology of borders, from the Berlin Wall to Donald Trump.

Play Therapy in Middle Childhood

Play Therapy in Middle Childhood
Author: Athena A. Drewes
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781433820830

I. Play interventions for internalizing disorders. Game-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for child sexual abuse / Craig I. Springer and Justin R. Misurell -- Play therapy to help school-age children deal with natural and human-made disasters / Akiko Ohnogi and Athena A. Drewes -- Playful trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for school-age children / Angela M. Cavett -- Use of pretend play to overcome anxiety in school-age children / Sandra W. Russ and Karla K. Fehr -- II. Play interventions for externalizing disorders. Playful cognitive-behavioral therapy for children with sexual behavior problems / Diana Garza Louis -- Enjoying theraplay with school-age children / David L. Myrow -- Using puppets with aggressive children to externalize the problem in narrative therapy / Jeffrey T. Guterman and Clayton V. Martin -- Kids together : a group therapy program for children using cognitive-behavioral play therapy interventions / Susan Hansen -- Adlerian play therapy for children with externalizing behaviors / Kristin K. Meany-Walen and Terry Kottman -- III. Play interventions to strengthen relationship skills. Child-parent relationship therapy with preadolescents / Kara Carnes-Holt, Kristin K. Meany-Whalen, and Peggy Ceballos -- Pair counseling to promote social competencies among school-age children / Michael J. Karcher, Kristi McClatchy, and Courtney Borsuk -- IV. Play interventions for autism spectrum disorder -- Play therapy for school-age children with high-functioning autism / Karen Stagnitti -- Child-centered play therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder / Maureen C. Kenny, Laura H. Dinehart, and Charles B. Winick -- Replays : a therapeutic approach for children with autism spectrum disorder / Karen Levine.

Modular Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders

Modular Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Childhood Anxiety Disorders
Author: Bruce F. Chorpita
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1593853637

This clinically wise and pragmatic book presents a systematic approach for treating any form of childhood anxiety using proven exposure-based techniques. What makes this rigorously tested modular treatment unique is that it is explicitly designed with flexibility and individualization in mind. Developed in a real-world, highly diverse community mental health context, the treatment can be continually adjusted to target motivational problems, disruptive behavior, family issues, and other frequently encountered clinical roadblocks. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes a detailed case formulation framework, a flexible treatment planning algorithm, and over 90 pages of user-friendly reproducibles.

The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics

The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics
Author: Mark M. Leach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 110857792X

The Cambridge Handbook of Applied Psychological Ethics is a valuable resource for psychologists and graduate students hoping to further develop their ethical decision making beyond more introductory ethics texts. The book offers real-world ethical vignettes and considerations. Chapters cover a wide range of practice settings, populations, and topics, and are written by scholars in these settings. Chapters focus on the application of ethics to the ethical dilemmas in which mental health and other psychology professionals sometimes find themselves. Each chapter introduces a setting and gives readers a brief understanding of some of the potential ethical issues at hand, before delving deeper into the multiple ethical issues that must be addressed and the ethical principles and standards involved. No other book on the market captures the breadth of ethical issues found in daily practice and focuses entirely on applied ethics in psychology.