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Transcultural Psychiatry: Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Immigrant Patients over the Globe

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The number of refugee, asylum seeker and immigrant patients over the globe is growing dramatically, and industrialized countries are likely to receive increasing numbers of people belonging to ethnic minorities in the form of refugees and asylum seekers due to a global increase in social and political instability as well as socioeconomic conflicts. The proportion of people with a serious mental disorder such as PTSD among this population is high. Thus health-care services should prepare themselves to better serve this group of ethnic minorities. They are insufficiently prepared for this specific population of mentally ill immigrants or ethnic minority groups. Particularly, mental health care for refugee, asylum seeker and immigrant patients is lacking, e.g. in cultural competence, intercultural psychotherapy and ethnopharmacology as well as legislation related to access to and utilization of health services, and varies from country to country. Transcultural psychiatry is a discipline within psychiatry, which deals with refugee, asylum seeker and immigrant patients over the globe. This chapter will give an overview on transcultural psychiatry and psychotherapy and future perspectives.

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  1. Psychiatric University Clinic of Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital, Berlin, Germany

    Meryam Schouler-Ocak

  2. De Evenaar, North Netherlands for Transcultural Psychiatry, Institute of Community Mental Health Drenthe, Beilen, The Netherlands

    Cornelis J. Laban

  3. Transcultural Center, Stockholm County Council, Transkulturellt Centrum, Stockholm, Sweden

    Sofie Bäärnhielm

  4. Past-Chair of WPA - Transcultural Psychiatry Section, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Marianne C. Kastrup

  5. Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

    Simon Dein

  6. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

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Schouler-Ocak, M., Laban, C.J., Bäärnhielm, S., Kastrup, M.C., Dein, S., Wintrob, R. (2019). Transcultural Psychiatry: Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Immigrant Patients over the Globe. In: Javed, A., Fountoulakis, K. (eds) Advances in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70554-5_37

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