International Perspectives in Values-Based Mental Health Practice : : Case Studies and Commentaries.

• Author: Stoyanov, Drozdstoy.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fulford, Bill.; Stanghellini, Giovanni.; Van Staden, Werdie.; Wong, Michael Th.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (415 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Preface: How the Book Came About -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1: Surprised by Values: An Introduction to Values-Based Practice and the Use of Personal Narratives in This Book -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Values -- 1.2.1 Values Are What Matters or Are Important to Those Concerned -- 1.2.2 Mrs. Jones' Knee -- 1.3 An Introduction to Values-Based Practice -- 1.3.1 Linking Science with People -- 1.3.2 A Clinical Decision for You -- 1.3.3 Zoe Barber's Surprise -- 1.3.4 An Outline of Values-Based Practice -- 1.3.5 Limitations -- 1.4 Values-Based Practice and This Book -- 1.4.1 Why Now? -- 1.5 The Role of Personal Narratives -- 1.5.1 Personal Narratives in This Book -- 1.5.2 Personal Narratives and Evidence-Based Practice -- 1.5.3 Values in Evidence-Based Practice -- 1.5.4 Individual and Cultural Values -- 1.6 Conclusions -- 1.7 Guide to Further Information -- References -- Part I: Exemplars -- 2: Migration Narratives: An Introduction to Part I, Exemplars -- 2.1 The Migration Narratives -- 2.2 Common Theme 1: Cultural Values May Have a Negative Role Acting as Factors in the Causes and Presentation of Mental Health Issues -- 2.2.1 A Note on Diagnostic Categories -- 2.3 Common Theme 2: Cultural Values May Also Play Positive Roles Acting as Protective Factors for Mental Health -- 2.3.1 Balancing Positives and Negatives -- 2.4 Common Theme 3: Narrative Understanding of Cultural Values -- 2.5 Common Theme 4: The Partnership Between Cultural Values and Mental Health Science -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Antonella: 'A Stranger in the Family'-A Case Study of Eating Disorders Across Cultures -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Case Narrative: Antonella's Story -- 3.2.1 Antonella's Predicament -- 3.2.2 A Therapeutic Buffet -- 3.2.3 A Foundling Child -- 3.2.4 A Family Visit from the Italian Alps.

3.3 Discussion -- 3.3.1 Antonella: Life Before Man -- 3.3.2 Wider Implications of Antonella's Story -- 3.4 Conclusions -- 3.5 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 4: The Role of Culture, Values and Trauma in Shaping Abnormal Bodily Experience in Migrants -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Narrative Histories -- 4.3 Discussion -- 4.4 Conclusion -- 4.5 Guide to Further Sources -- 5: Premorbid Personality and Expatriation as Possible Risk Factors for Brief Psychotic Disorder: A Case Report from Post-Soviet Bulgaria -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Alice's Story -- 5.3 Discussion -- 5.4 The Values Impacting on This Story -- 5.5 The Cultural Influences on Alice's Story -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 5.7 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- Part II: Theory -- 6: Theory First: An Introduction to Part II, Theory -- 6.1 Widening the Theory Base -- 6.1.1 Building on Two-Way Partnerships -- 6.2 Theory as a Resource for Practice -- 6.3 Practice as a Resource for Theory -- 6.4 Other Areas of Philosophy -- 6.5 An Endorsement from Practice -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 6.7 Guide to Further Information -- References -- 7: The Will to Beauty as a Therapeutic Agent: Aesthetic Values in the Treatment of Addictive Disorders -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Case History (Part I): The Loss of Beauty -- 7.3 Digression: The Concept Behind the Orpheus Treatment Programme -- 7.4 Case History (Part II): Recovering the Beautiful -- 7.5 The Values Arising in This Story -- 7.6 The Influences of Culture on This Story -- 7.7 The Influences of Aesthetic Values and the Will to Beauty on This Story -- 7.8 Case History (Part III): A Key Experience of Beauty -- 7.9 Case History (Part IV): Working Together Towards Beauty -- 7.10 Conclusions -- 7.11 Guide to Further Sources -- References.

8: Anorexia as Religion: Ocularcentrism as a Cultural Value and a Compensation Strategy in Persons with Eating Disorders -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Anorexia as Religion: A Personal Testimony -- 8.3 Passions and Values as Sources of Stability -- 8.4 Pro-Anna Websites -- 8.4.1 Ana's Rules -- 8.4.2 Pro-Ana as a Religion of Thinness and Starvation -- 8.4.3 Cultural Values: Ocularcentrism -- 8.5 Ocularcentrism and FED -- 8.6 Conclusions -- References -- 9: Ethos, Embodiment, Psychosis: Losing One's Home-Identity Stakes -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Story of Tania Z: Thrown Out of Home -- 9.3 Values Arising -- 9.4 Cultural Influences -- 9.5 Conclusions -- 9.6 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 10: African Personhood, Humanism, and Critical Sankofaism: The Case of Male Suicide in Ghana -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Suicide and Social Values around Gender -- 10.3 Communitarianism of African Personhood -- 10.4 Critical Sankofaism -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 11: Madness, Mythopoetry and Medicine -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Narrative History: Masimbo -- 11.2.1 Values Arising in the Story: What Matters or What Is Important to Those Concerned -- 11.2.2 The Influences of Culture on the Story -- 11.3 Storytelling as Healing in African Culture and Beyond -- 11.4 Conclusions -- 11.5 Guide to Further Sources -- Reference -- 12: Inside and Out: How Western Patriarchal Cultural Contexts Shape Women's Relationships with Their Bodies -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Story of Annie -- 12.3 The Values in Annie's Story -- 12.4 The Cultural Influences -- 12.5 Implications for Therapy -- 12.6 Conclusions -- 12.7 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 13: Spiritual, Religious and Ethical Values in a Suicidal Individual -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Narrative Vignette -- 13.3 Discussion.

13.4 Religion, Values and Mental Health Issues -- 13.5 Suicide and Cultural Values in Portugal -- 13.6 Values, Suicide Risk and Clinical Decision-Making -- 13.7 Conclusions -- 13.8 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 14: Cultural Values, Religion and Psychosis: Five Short Stories -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Case Narrative One -- 14.3 Case Narrative Two -- 14.4 Case Narrative Three -- 14.5 Case Narrative Four -- 14.6 Case Narrative Five -- 14.7 Values and Cultural Issues Arising -- 14.8 Conclusion -- 14.9 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- Part III: Practice -- 15: Vectors of Best Practice: An Introduction to Part III, Practice -- 15.1 The Bottom Line -- 15.2 Early Observations -- 15.2.1 Early Observations Leading to Person-Values-Centred Care -- 15.2.2 Early Observations Leading to the Extended Multidisciplinary Team -- 15.3 With Hindsight: A Confession -- 15.4 Values-Based Practice in This Part -- 15.4.1 Person-Values-Centred Care -- 15.4.2 The Extended Multidisciplinary Team -- 15.4.3 Shared Clinical Decision-Making Supported by Dissensual Balancing Within Frameworks of Shared Values -- 15.5 Recovery Practice -- 15.6 Conclusions -- 15.7 Guide to Further Information -- References -- 16: Cross-Cultural Factors and Identity in Adolescence -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.1.1 Cross-Cultural Psychology and Family Therapy -- 16.2 Narrative Episode I: B Travels from Britain to Bulgaria -- 16.2.1 Values Comment: Cultural Values Hidden in Plain Sight -- 16.3 Narrative Episode II: Parenting Styles -- 16.3.1 Values Comment: Cultural Values and Parenting Styles -- 16.4 Narrative Episode III: B in Bulgaria -- 16.4.1 Values Comment: The Good Bulgarian Father -- 16.4.2 Values Comment: The Good Bulgarian Mother -- 16.5 Narrative Episode IV: B Stays with Her Grandmother.

16.5.1 Values Comment: Cultural Values Across the Generations -- 16.6 Narrative Episode V: Developing Awareness of Values -- 16.6.1 Values Comment: Balancing Values -- 16.7 Narrative Episode VI: Crisis as a Starting Point -- 16.7.1 Values Comment: Crisis as Both a Values Challenge and a Values Opportunity -- 16.8 Conclusions -- 16.9 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 17: Multidisciplinary Teamwork and the Insanity Defence: A Case of Infanticide in Iraq -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Narrative -- 17.3 Cultural Context -- 17.4 The Criminal Responsibility Panel as a Multidisciplinary Team -- 17.5 Conclusions -- 17.6 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 18: Colonial Values and Asylum Care in Brazil: Reclaiming the Streets Through Carnival in Rio de Janeiro -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 The Story of "Patient" Elisama and Psychologist, Ariadne -- 18.3 Colonisation, Mental Health and Carnival as Resistance -- 18.4 Conclusions -- 18.5 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 19: Alcohol Use Disorder in a Culture That Normalizes the Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages: The Conflicts for Decision-Making -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Narrative: The story of Dra Sousa and Her Patient, Bruno -- 19.3 Values Arising and Clinical Care -- 19.4 The Influences of Culture on This Story -- 19.5 Conclusions -- 19.6 Guide to Further Sources -- References -- 20: Living at the Edge of Compromise: Balkan Pluralism as a Resource for Balanced Decision-Making -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Narrative: The Story of Dr Petrov and His Neighbor, Ivailo -- 20.3 What Values and Whose? -- 20.4 The Influences of Culture -- 20.5 Implications for Values-Based Practice -- 20.5.1 Balkan Pluralism and the Default to Monism -- 20.5.2 Dr Petrov as a Values-Based Practitioner -- 20.5.3 Implementing Values-Based Practice -- 20.6 Conclusions.

20.7 Guides to Further Sources.