The Mental Health Status of South Asian Women in Britain

Anand, Aradhana S.; Cochrane, Raymond

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“…After observing the numerous cultural and linguistic barriers that Pakistani women face when engaging in enterprise in the UK, Duncan organised a new 3-year study to investigate the impact of social and community relations on the women's worldview (see Anand and Cochrane, 2005;Platt, 2007;Gater et al, 2010).…”

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What is critical appreciation? Insights from studying the critical turn in an appreciative inquiry

Ridley-Duff

Duncan²

2015

Human Relations

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Appreciative Inquiry (AI) was developed in the late 1980s as a process to encourage social innovation by involving people in discovering the 'best of what is'. Recent research has suggested that AI practitioners' focus on positivity is now inhibiting AI's focus on generative theory. This paper responds by asking the question "what is critical appreciation?", then seeks answers by studying the critical turn in a Big Lottery Research project. By tracking the narratives of research assistants (RAs) as they describe the 'life worlds' and 'systems' in their community, we clarify the recursive processes that lead to deeper levels of appreciation. We contribute to the development of critical appreciative processes (CAPs) that start with a critical inquiry (CI) to deconstruct experience and then engage critical appreciative processes during the remainder of the AI cycle to construct new experiences. The initial CI establishes which system imperatives colonise the life world of participants whilst subsequent criticalappreciative processes build participants' aspirations to design new social systems.

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What is critical appreciation? Insights from studying the critical turn in an appreciative inquiry

Ridley-Duff

Duncan²

2015

Human Relations

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“…Balarajan, Yuen, and Raleigh (1989) found that after adjusting for age and socio-economic group, consultation rates among men and women of Pakistani origin were almost three times and double, respectively, compared to the indigenous men and women. Anand and Cochrane (2005) argued that one reason for British Asians appearing more resilient is that Western diagnostic classification systems fail to understand and diagnose Asians experience and presentation of distress.…”

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The relationship between somatic expression, psychological distress and GP consultation in two cultural groups

Sheikh

Furnham

2012

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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This article sets out to examine the relationship between cultural and demographic factors and psychological distress, somatic expression of distress and frequency of general practitioner (GP) consultation. The investigation was carried out in two cultural groups, British Asians living in the UK and native White British residents. It was hypothesised that the British Asian group would have higher somatisation scores than the British group. Further, it was hypothesised that these would be associated with frequency of GP consultations. Participants were 146 adults attending two GP surgeries. They answered a questionnaire on frequency of GP consultation and completed two questionnaires, the Bradford Somatic Inventory (Mumford, D.B. (1989). Somatic sensation and psychological distress among students in Britain and Pakistan. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 24, 321-326.) and the 28-item General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1972). Multiple regressions showed culture as being a significant predictor of somatic expression of distress. Demographic variables, such as income and age, were found to be also significant. Proficiency in English, in the British Asian sample, had a significant effect on somatic expression. There was a strong association between somatic expression of distress, psychological distress and frequency of GP visits for the British Asian sample and not for the British sample. Somatic expression predicted GP visits for the British Asian sample only. Implications for GP consultations and diagnostic procedures are discussed.

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“…D'une manière générale, les études qualitatives tentant de rendre compte des différents itinéraires thérapeutiques des immigrants indiens soulignent que ces méthodes sont systématiquement perçues comme étrangères à la réalité socioculturelle des répondants et à leur conception de la détresse comme phénomène avant tout contextuel et appelant à un travail sur soi. Toutefois, la littérature qui traite de l'expérience de la détresse chez les migrants indiens au Canada demeure des plus marginales, un fait étonnant considérant que les études qui touchent directement le rapport des immigrants indiens à la santé mentale se comptent par dizaines en Angleterre (Anand et Cochrane 2005;Beliappa 1991;Burr et Chapman 2004;Dein et Sembhi 2001;Hussain et Cochrane 2004;Hussain et Cochrane 2003). Je discuterai d'ailleurs briè-vement les résultats de la présente recherche à la lumière d'une telle littéra-ture plus loin dans cet article.…”

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La voie de l’intérieur

Duclos¹

2010

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Résumé Cet article fait suite à une recherche de terrain menée auprès de migrants indiens de Montréal et dont l’objectif était de cerner le sens associé à la détresse chez ceux-ci et de constater les différentes stratégies thérapeutiques utilisées en sa présence ou pour la prévenir. L’article se concentre principalement sur la prise en charge de la détresse, laquelle a pour trame de fond une certaine image de l’individu, de ses états d’esprit et de leur temporalité. Les migrants indiens percevant la détresse comme une rupture de l’équilibre intérieur, leurs actions thérapeutiques visent principalement le renforcement de l’intérieur en s’appuyant sur différentes pratiques telles que le yoga, la prière, l’alimentation et l’exercice. Le recours aux médicaments, quant à lui, se situe dans une relation d’extériorité sémantique avec la conception de l’individualité et de la détresse avancée par les répondants.

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The Mental Health Status of South Asian Women in Britain

Cited by 46 publications

References 43 publications

What is critical appreciation? Insights from studying the critical turn in an appreciative inquiry

What is critical appreciation? Insights from studying the critical turn in an appreciative inquiry

The relationship between somatic expression, psychological distress and GP consultation in two cultural groups

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