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Abstract

Migrants and ethnic minorities are at higher risk to develop mental disorders compared to native population. Culture has an important impact on the symptom presentation, diagnostic process and treatment strategies in all populations. Cultural competence represents good clinical practice and can be defined as a two-way learning encounter where clinician acknowledges the patient’s culture as well as his own cultural values and prejudices. Cultural competent response to the mental health care requires knowledge, skills and attitudes. Both individual and organizational cultural competences are needed to improve the effectiveness of psychiatric treatment. In this chapter, we revised the WPA Guidance on Mental Health and Mental Health Care for Migrants and the EPA Guidance on Mental Health Care for Migrants and list a series of recommendations for policy-makers, service providers and clinicians. Cultural competent experiences in the treatment of somatization and other psychiatric disorders across several countries in Europe are also presented.

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  1. Bologna Transcultural Psychosomatic Team (BoTPT), Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences (DIMEC), Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

    Ilaria Tarricone

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Hannover Medical School, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover, Germany

    Iris T. Graef-Calliess

  3. Dow University of Health Sciences, Pakistan Institute of Living and Learning, Karachi, Pakistan

    Nasim Chaudhry

  4. Copenhagen, Denmark

    Marianne Kastrup

  5. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Neuromotorie (DIBINEM), Alma Mater Studiourum Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

    Domenico Berardi

  6. Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London, London, UK

    Dinesh Bhugra

  7. Department of Mental Health, AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Mauro Braca

  8. Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany

    Ronald Burian & Albert Diefenbacher

  9. Department of Diagnostics, Clinical and Public Health Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Silvia Ferrari

  10. University of Manchester, Lancashire Care Early Intervention Service, Manchester, UK

    Nusrat Husain

  11. Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Servei de Psiquiatria, Barcelona, Spain

    Adil Qureshi

  12. Psychiatric University Clinic of Charité at St. Hedwig’s Hospital, Berlin, Germany

    Meryam Schouler-Ocak

  13. Section of Psychiatry, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Sarah Tosato

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Tarricone, I. et al. (2019). Cross-Cultural Issues. In: Grassi, L., Riba, M., Wise, T. (eds) Person Centered Approach to Recovery in Medicine. Integrating Psychiatry and Primary Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74736-1_7

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