... racism (interpersonal and institutional) and an awareness of non‐personalised racism in society creates conditions which mean that African Caribbean people experience toxicity in their dealings with white people and white institutions, including mental health services. This is detrimental to service user...

... to it. Posttraumatic stress Cognitive behaviour therapy Case studies Service user narratives Ethnic minorities Stress Mental health services In the UK, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is responsible for providing a range of evidence‐based guidance on the treatment and prevention...

...Kwame McKenzie; Denise Canso; David M. Ndetei; Patrick Gatonga Purpose The aim of this paper is to review the history of mental health service improvement in Kenya, to discuss current provision of services, challenges to the provision of services and future needs for services. Design...

... Immigrants Violence Mental health services The impact of violence and other shocking types of suffering are now measured through the (morally neutral) sciences of memory and psychology … Western health professionals and the public have a misguided image of war and its aftermath that is often far...

... of specialized community mental health nurses (mental health officers) and improving access to psychotropic drugs. As a result, the country has developed a more accessible mental health service; the number of patients treated in the community has doubled over the past decade and 67 percent of inpatients are now...

...David Truswell; Richard Bryant‐Jefferies This article summarises what the Department of Health's (2005) Delivering Race Equality (DRE) agenda in mental health services set out to achieve and the background to this. The article then provides commentary on the Central and North West London NHS...