The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2019) Current Clinical Psychiatry Series

This edition is updated to include new research and clinical material for practitioners working with mental health patients of diverse backgrounds.  Written by experts in cultural sensitivity, the text begins by establishing innovative approaches to understanding diversity, tools for diversity educational training for health care providers, clinical interviewing techniques and effective strategies in having difficult conversations. Indirect approaches to understanding diversity and mental health come from unique chapters that range from the ways that journalists process and discuss mental health competency to the business model for cultural competency in health care.

The second section of the book moves from the broader subjects to the needs of specific populations, including Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, African American, Middle Eastern, Refugee and LGBQT communities. The discussion includes understanding the complexities of making mental health diagnoses and the various meanings these diagnoses have for the socio-cultural group described. Each chapter also details biopsychosocial treatment options and challenges.

The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health, Second Edition, is an excellent resource for all clinicians working with diverse populations, including psychiatrists, primary care physicians, emergency room physicians, early career physicians and trainees, psychologists, nurses, social workers, researchers, and medical educators.

Part I.  Innovative Ways to Understand Diversity

Chapter 1. Diversity Dialogue

Anne Emmerich, MD, Ariel Otero, MD, Ranna Parekh, MD, and Estee Sharon, PsyD

Chapter 2. The Engagement Interview Protocol (EIP): Improving the Acceptance of Mental Health Treatment among Culturally Diverse Populations

Nhi-Ha Trinh M.D., M.P.H., Trina Chang M.D., M.P.H., and Albert Yeung M.D., ScD

Chapter 3. Cultural and Diversity Issues in Mediation and Negotiation

David A. Hoffman, Esq. and Katherine Triantafillou, Esq.

Chapter 4. Providing Medical Care to Diverse Populations

Deborah Washington, PhD, RNa and Robert Doyle, MA, DDS, MD

Chapter 5. Cultivating Courage, Compassion, and Cultural Sensitivity in News Reporting of Mental Health During Challenging Times

Linda R. Zucker B.A., M.B.A., J.D.

Chapter 6. Illegal, Alien, and Other: Cultural Competency and Migration

Schuyler W. Henderson, MD MPH

Part II. Specific Populations

Chapter 7. Psychiatry for People of African Descent in the USA

Carl Bell M.D. and Christine M. Crawford M.D., M.P.H.

Chapter 8. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health

Joseph E. Trimble Ph.D., Jeff King Ph.D. D, Teresa D. LaFromboise Ph.D., and Dolores Subia BigFoot Ph.D.

Chapter 9. Mental Health of Arab Americans: Cultural Considerations for Excellence of Care

Imad Melhem M.D.,1 Zeina Chemali M.D., M.P.H., and Ashlee Wolfgang PsyD

Chapter 10. An Approach to Mental Health in Asian Americans

Chapter 11. Cultural Sensitivity: What Should We Understand About Latinos?

Aida L. Jiménez Ph.D., Margarita Alegría Ph.D., Richard F. Camino-Gaztambide M.D., Lazaro V. Zayas M.D., and Maria Jose Lisotto M.D.

Chapter 12. Not by Convention: Working with People on the Sexual and Gender Continuum

Jeremy A. Wernick, L.M.S.W., Samantha M. Busa, Psy.D., Aron Janssen M.D., and Karen Ron-Li Liaw M.D.

Chapter 13. Understanding the Mental Health of Refugees: Trauma, Stress, and the Cultural Context

B. Heidi Ellis Ph.D., Jeffrey P. Winer, Ph.D., Kate Murray Ph.D., M.P.H., and Colleen Barrett M.P.H.

Ranna Parekh, MD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
1423 N. Rhodes Street
Unit 301
Arlington, VA 
22209

Nhi-Ha Trinh, MD, MPH
Department of Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
MGH Depression Clinical and Research Program (MGH DCRP)
One Bowdoin Square, Sixth floor
Boston, MA 02114

Updated to include new research and clinical material for practitioners working with mental health patients of diverse backgrounds

Offers information relevant to providers of specific populations but also creative approaches to understanding diversity without one’s having specific knowledge of minority groups

Written by experts in specific topics in cultural sensitivity in mental health