Gender, human rights and cultural diversity

The three issues of gender equality, human rights and cultural diversity have dominated my organizational commitments, research, and clinical practice in transcultural psychiatry. These issues are intertwined in many ways and have broad implications for transcultural psychiatry. With increasing globalization, psychiatrists in many countries are likely to be treating patients who have migrated from different cultures and who may have been exposed to a variety of traumatic experiences that have a profound impact on their mental health. Of particular concern is the group of torture survivors and the elucidation of their symptom manifestations, as well as effective therapeutic interventions, which clearly show how human rights issues are linked to research and clinical psychiatry. The analyses of how different ethnic groups use psychiatric services, epitomize how important it is to pay attention to gender aspects in the interpretation of the findings and their therapeutic, as well as policy, implications

Cultural diversity · Ethnic group · Globalization · Human rights · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Torture · Child and Adolescent Health · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

• Survivors of war in northern Kosovo (III)

  Open Access•Shr-Jie Wang, Feride Rushiti et al.•Conflict and Health•2012

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• Human Rights Violations and Mental Illness

  Open Access•Magnus Mfoafo-M’carthy, Stephanie Hul et al.•SAGE Open•2014

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• War, women and health

  Libby Tata Arcel, Marianne C Kastrup et al.•NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist…•2004

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