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Three challenges to a life course approach in global mental health: epistemic violence, temporality and forced migration

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posted on 2023-06-09, 05:34 authored by Charles WattersCharles Watters
This chapter offers an examination of a life course approach in global mental health (GMH) and identifies three central challenges to this approach. These include the ‘violence’ that may be done to culturally specific systems of meaning in introducing ‘mental health literacy’ in the form of Western psychiatric concepts, explanatory models and treatment modalities. A second challenge resides in issues of temporality and the way time is conceptualized within intervention and research programmes, including the superimposition of normative developmental trajectories that disrupt culturally meaningful understandings of life stages. A third challenge derives from application of life course approaches to migrant populations at a time of unprecedented human movement. Each of these challenges is examined, as are the implications for the development of GMH.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Page range

237-256

Pages

807.0

Book title

The Palgrave handbook of sociocultural perspectives on global mental health

Place of publication

London, UK

ISBN

9781137395092

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  • Clinical and Experimental Medicine Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Ross G White, David M R Orr, Ursula M Read, Sumeet Jain

Legacy Posted Date

2017-03-29

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