Western Voodoo: Providing Mental Health Care to Haitian Refugees

Gustafson, Marilyne

doi:10.3928/0279-3695-19891201-07

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“…The degree to which one individual is perceived as "the bad seed" may directly determine the extent to which family members are unwilling to accept the need to change family interactions to modify a problem manifested in the "bad seed" child. In some Haitian families, in whom we clearly confronted this phenomenon, not only was it difficult to expand the view of the problem to a familial and interactional one, it was also difficult to convince parents that "talking" to the adolescent could help with the problem (Gustafson, 1989). Our family therapy assumptions were limited when attempting to understand the Haitian family's perspective, and the interventions offered were not compatible with the perceived problem.…”

Section: Human Naturementioning

confidence: 96%

Integrating the study of ethnic culture and family psychology intervention science.

Santisteban

Muir-Malcolm²,

Mitrani³

et al. 2002

Family Psychology: Science-Based Interventions.

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lthough strong research traditions have existed in both the family process and family therapy domain (Alexander, Holtzworth-Munroe, & Jameson, A 1994) and in the culture and ethnicity domain (Guarnaccia, Canino, Rubio-Stepic, & Bravo, 1993;Marin & Marin, 1991), the promise of integrating the two with the goal of rigorously investigating how ethnicity-related dimensions influence core family and clinical processes has remained largely unrealized. Core processes in the family functioning and family therapy domains have been effectively articulated and made the targets of rigorous research (Liddle, 1995; Patterson, Reid, & Dishion, 1992;Schmidt, Liddle, & Dakof, 1996) Likewise, there is a substantial literature showing ethnicity-related differences in how symptoms develop, are expressed, are explained, and how and to whom people communicate their distress (Guarnaccia et al., 1993;McGoldrick, 1996;Rivera-Arzola & Ramos-Grenier, 1997;Szapocznik, Scopetta, & King, 1978). One of the important challenges for family intervention science is to integrate these two streams of research and rigorously investigate the intricate interplay between ethnicity, family functioning, and family intervention. As McGoldrick has stated, "there is burgeoning evidence that ethnic values and identifications are retained for many generations after immigration and play a significant role in family life throughout the life cycle. Second-, third-, and even fourth-generation Americans differ from the dominant [White European] culture in values, behavior, and life cycle patterns" (McGoldrick, 1989, p. 70). Inclusion of these culture and ethnicity-related variables can help the family intervention scientist to understand unique processes in families of diverse ethnic backgrounds and in predicting patient responses to some of our commonly used interventions. The push toward this integration is timely, given that ethnic minority groups 33 1

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Section: Human Naturementioning

confidence: 96%

Integrating the study of ethnic culture and family psychology intervention science.

Santisteban

Muir-Malcolm²,

Mitrani³

et al. 2002

Family Psychology: Science-Based Interventions.

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Conceptualizing gender in marital and family therapy research: The gender role strain paradigm.

Levant¹,

Philpot²

2002

Family Psychology: Science-Based Interventions.

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The mental health and psychosocial effects of organized violence: A qualitative study in northern Haiti

Bolton

Surkan

Gray³

et al. 2012

Transcult Psychiatry

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Historically, organized violence has been a chronic pervasive problem in Haiti. We set out to elicit Haitians' views on its effects to guide the development of interventions. In March 2006 we studied a population in the slum area of Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, and the nearby towns of Milot and Limbe. A convenience sample of adults was asked to free list all current problems affecting victims of organized violence. Two major categories emerged: psychological problems and financial problems. The psychological problems of "feeling startled and loss of self control," "sadness/grief," "continuing to suffer from reliving/reexperiencing past events," "problems in the head/mental problems," "deep suffering in the heart," and "thinking too much" emerged as themes from key-informant interviews. These may correspond to constructs of depression, dysthymia, and anxiety disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder in psychiatric nosology. The development of effective interventions can therefore consider those known to be effective for these problems in other settings. However in selecting interventions, considerations must also include local acceptability, perceived causes of problems, and their social effects.

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Western Voodoo: Providing Mental Health Care to Haitian Refugees

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Integrating the study of ethnic culture and family psychology intervention science.

Integrating the study of ethnic culture and family psychology intervention science.

Conceptualizing gender in marital and family therapy research: The gender role strain paradigm.

The mental health and psychosocial effects of organized violence: A qualitative study in northern Haiti

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