BME focus 2007 Philomena Harrison SERIES EDITOR Community development is a set of values and practices which plays a special role in overcoming poverty and disadvantage, knitting society together at the grassroots and deepening democracy. (Community Development Foundation, 2006). policy makers to respond in equally complex ways, which will include changes in the use of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions. Fernando usefully points us to some of the complexities when we consider cultural differences in understandings of therapy, care, assessment and treatment in mental health services. Assessments usually fail to allow for ideologies about life, approaches to lifeâs problems, beliefs and feelings that come from non-Western cultures, mainly because training (of professionals) is of Western culture. (Fernando, 1995 p32) If a critical analysis on the basis of âraceâ or âcultureâ, including historical and structural issues, is not made, then the problem becomes that of the individual and not of society. The question is how far any one approach can be sufficient to respond effectively to the mental health and well-being needs of Britainâs multicultural society. How far does a holistic community development approach to engaging with minority communities differ from a drive for integrated and multi-systems service delivery?
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Harrison, Philomena
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