The Essential Elements of Culturally Sensitive Psychiatric Services

Kamaldeep Bhui, Yvonne Christie and Dinesh Bhugra
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Kamaldeep Bhui: The Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ, England
Yvonne Christie: King's Fund Centre and NHS Task Force on Race and Mental Health), AveLeon Associates, 110 Perry Hill, London SE6
Dinesh Bhugra: Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1995, vol. 41, issue 4, 242-256

Abstract: The recent re-structuring of the British National Health Service (NHS) involving a greater emphasis on community treatment has not specifically taken account of the unequal access to mental health services experienced by black people. The greater use amongst black people of compulsory orders, police involvement and reliance on psychotropic medication, although well established, has not influ enced policy or led to a strategy to ensure that services appropriately meet the needs of the culturally diverse population in this country. We present the literature on service utilisation by black people and potential solutions in areas with which black people are dissatisfied. The service structures, idoology and mechanisms presented form the foundations of good practice.

Date: 1995
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