Table of Contents

Preface Andreas Maercker, Eva Heim, & Laurence J. Kirmayer
Part 1: Culturally Sensitive Approaches to PTSD and Related Mental Disorders Chapter 1 Culturally Responsive Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: An Ecosocial Approach Laurence J. Kirmayer & Ana Gomez-Carrillo
Chapter 2 Variability of PTSD and Trauma-Related Disorders Across Cultures: A Study of Cambodians Devon E. Hinton & Eric Bui
Chapter 3 Sociosomatics in the Context of Migration Corina Salis Gross & Clare Killikelly
Part 2: Cultural Values, Metaphors, and the Search for Universals Chapter 4 Cultural Psychology Is More Than Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Toward Cultural Dimensions in Traumatic Stress Research Andreas Maercker
Chapter 5 Distress and Trauma in the Clinical History of Neurosis in Sweden and Finland Petteri Pietikainen
Chapter 6 Trauma and Umwelt: An Archetypal Framework for Humanitarian Interventions Renos K. Papadopoulos
Chapter 7 Wounds and Dirt: Gendered Metaphors in the Cultural History of Trauma Lisa Malich
Chapter 8 Metaphors of Trauma in Indigenous Communities in India and Brazil Karin Rechsteiner & Iara Meili
Chapter 9 Metaphors of Posttraumatic Growth: A Qualitative Study in Swiss, Lithuanian, and Brazilian Rural Communities Iara Meili, Goda Gegieckaite, & Evaldas Kazlauskas
Chapter 10 Paradoxes and Parallels in the Global Distribution of Trauma-Related Mental Health Problems Michel L. A. Duckers & Chris R. Brewin
Part 3: Global Mental Health and Intervention Challenges Chapter 11 Principles and Evidence of Culture Sensitive Mental Health Approaches Nadine Stammel
Chapter 12 Culture-Sensitive Interventions in PTSD Ulrike von Lersner
Chapter 13 Cultural Adaptation of Scalable Interventions Eva Heim, Melissa Harper Shehadeh, Edith van't Hof, & Kenneth Carswell
Chapter 14 A Grief Intervention Embedded Within a Chinese Cultural Practice for Bereaved Parents Daiming Xiu & Clare Killikelly

Promotional Information

A 230-page volume of research, new concepts, new language, and a deeper understanding of how an individual's cultural background significantly impacts the psychotherapeutic relationship.One of the strengths of this book is the careful organization of material that builds upon each of the parts. [It delineates] how to determine what components of evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions can be adapted, what internationally accepted tools exist to facilitate communication, and how to gather the results of these proceedings to further the delivery of personalized mental health care in settings far removed from the controlled spaces of a professional office. In the assessment of a number of commonly adapted interventions, I wasn't surprised to find that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been the most successful. What was less intuitive was that the type of response to an intervention is influenced strongly by whether or not the person comes from a culture that is either predominantly individualistic or collectivistic.The principles and concepts developed in this book can be easily adapted to the care of immigrant, multicultural populations.;Reviewed by Maria Grande, MD, St. Catharines, Ontario, in Medical Psychotherapy Review (2021), 28, 8-9

About the Author

Andreas Maercker, PhD MD, Professor and Chair at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, is one of the world's leading experts in psychological trauma consequences and posttraumatic stress disorder. He directed several basic and treatment research programs on traumatized populations in Germany and Switzerland. From 2011 to 2018 he chaired the working group "Stress-associated disorders" for the ICD-11 revision by the World Health Organization.
Eva Heim, PhD, co-directs the working group Cultural Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and works as a psychotherapist at the Department's outpatient clinic. She graduated in clinical psychology from the University of Bern and conducted the fieldwork for her PhD in Bolivia, where she lived for four years.
Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, is Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and a world-leading expert on cultural psychiatry. He founded and directs the annual Summer Program and Advanced Study Institute in Cultural Psychiatry at McGill. He also directs the Network for Aboriginal Mental Health Research.

Reviews

This comprehensive resource is full of ideas and wise guidance for expanding our thinking about trauma and its consequences. It provides rich clinical examples of the cultural and contextual adaptation of trauma-related interventions as well as a roadmap of key issues for researchers seeking to lay the foundations for a cultural clinical psychology of traumatic stress. Those seeking to assist trauma survivors from different cultures and countries will be helped to take a giant step towards real cultural competence. ;Josef I. Ruzek, PhD, Co-Director, Center for m2 Health, Palo Alto University, CA, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, CA, USA;Culturally responsive care demands culturally sensitive, evidence-based interventions. The editors undertake the mammoth task of integrating expertise from several interdisciplinary fields such as cultural clnical psychology, psychiatry, epidemiology, philosophy, social anthropology, and sociology [and] impressively deliver a wealth of knowledge for a wide range of audiences. The book affirms the relevance of challenging the universality of Western frameworks for clinically comprehending psychological trauma [and] emphasizes appropriately adapting existing psychological categories, constructs, assessments, and treatments.Cultural Clinical Psychology and PTSD weaves together an enriching volume of literature and offers much-needed integrative knowledge on the nuances of psychological trauma and its cultural variances and interventions.;Suchithra Varadarajan, Institute of Psychology and Education, University of Ulm, Germany, in Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psythotherapie (2021), 50, 100-103;