Mental Health and Wellbeing, 1st ed. 2019
Intercultural Perspectives
Foundations of Mental Health Practice Series

Mental Health and Wellbeing is a timely new book that explores these increasingly important subjects from an intercultural perspective. This is essential reading for anyone studying or working in mental health at this time of unprecedented levels of human migration and when mutual understanding of diverse cultural perspectives is of vital importance.

Introduction: The changing environment of mental health and wellbeing.- Part I: Intercultural perspectives on mental health and wellbeing.- 1. Migration, mobility and wellbeing.- 2. Cultural diversity, mental health and wellbeing.- 3. Mental health and wellbeing of refugees.- 4. Religion, spirituality and wellbeing.- 5. Collective and cultural sources of wellbeing.- Part II: The Impact of Intercultural Modalities on Services.- 6. Mindfulness.- 7. Shamanism.- 8. Prayer.- 9. New Paradigms in Family Based Approaches.- Part III: Emerging Paradigms in Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Charles Watters is Professor of Wellbeing and Social Care at the Centre for Innovation and Research in Wellbeing (University of Sussex) and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care.