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17 - Responding to diversity in home treatment
- from Section 3 - Current practice
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- By Danny Antebi, consultant psychiatrist and clinical director, Waquas Waheed, consultant psychiatrist with the crisis resolution and home treatment team at Accrington, Sonia Johnson, University College, London, Lisa Marrett, Diversity Training Lead for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust
- Edited by Sonia Johnson, University College London, Justin Needle, City University London, Jonathan P. Bindman, Graham Thornicroft, King's College London
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- Book:
- Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health
- Published online:
- 13 August 2009
- Print publication:
- 31 July 2008, pp 205-222
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Summary
When patients are treated in their own homes rather than in an institutional setting, their social circumstances and identities are necessarily much more visible and salient. This offers very valuable opportunities to assess social determinants of the crises, to deliver interventions that are appropriate to clients' social and cultural needs and to engage the key members of their social networks in the management of their mental health problems. Considerable challenges accompany these opportunities. Home treatment clinicians cannot avoid having their own values and preconceptions challenged by the great range of ways of living and thinking that they will find among patients and their social networks, and adapting interventions so that they are appropriate to the full range of clients' values and social circumstances requires considerable imagination and sensitivity to diversity. In this chapter, we will explore the ways in which crisis resolution teams (CRTs) can try to respond effectively to clients' diverse needs. Our main focus will be on responding to ethnic, religious and cultural variations, but in the latter part of the chapter, we will also address gender-specific needs and home treatment for gay men and lesbians.
Ethnic diversity: background and current service provision
Migrants from Asia, Africa, eastern Europe and the Caribbean Islands permanently reside as ethnic minorities in many Western countries. Numbers both of asylum seekers and economic migrants have substantially increased, driven by wars and global political upheavals and by economic disparities.