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Working with Immigrant Women: Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals

While immigrant women face common issues that can influence their health, how they respond to and deal with these challenges is unique to each woman’s situation. In this book, we explore how multiple identities—such as age, race, gender and class—among other social identities—intersect to influence immigrant women’s mental health. By bringing together various theoretical, research and clinical perspectives, we have attempted to capture the complexity and diversity of immigrant women’s experiences.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface  / PDF

Introduction  / PDF

Part 1: Understanding the Context of Immigrant Women’s Lives

  • Emerging Trends in Canadian Immigration and Challenges for Newcomers

Part 2: Theoretical Perspectives

  • Theoretical Perspectives and Conceptual Frameworks
  • Are Sensitivity and Tolerance Enough? Comparing Two Theoretical Approaches to Caring for Newcomer Women with Mental Health Problems

Part 3: Current Realities for Immigrant Women and New Paradigms for Mental Health Practice  

  • Social Determinants of Depression among Immigrant and Refugee Women
  • Recognizing Spirituality as a Vital Component in Mental Health Care
  • The Community Interpreter: A Critical Link between Clients and Service Providers
  • Services for Women: Access, Equity and Quality

Part 4: Working with Specific Groups

  • Newcomer Girls in Canada: Implications for Interventions by Mental Health Professionals
  • Women at the Centre of Changing Families: A Study of Sudanese Women’s Resettlement Experiences
  • Separation and Reunification Challenges Faced by Caribbean Women and Their Children
  • Counselling Lesbian and Bisexual Immigrant Women of Colour
  • Practice Implications for Working with Refugee Women 
  • Addressing Older Women’s Health: A Pressing Need

Part 5: Highlighting Critical Mental Health Concerns

  • Trauma Work with Latin American Women in Canada
  • Intimate Partner Violence among Immigrant and Refugee Women
  • Postpartum Depression among Immigrant Women

Part 6: Conclusion

  • Future Directions

About the Editors  / PDF

About the Authors  / PDF

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