Women's Mental Health Resistance and Resilience in Community and Soc
This book analyzes systemic problems affecting women's mental health--social inequities, marginalization, racism, and displacement among them--and proposes holistic real-world approaches to practice and policy. Women’s experiences from around the glo
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Nazilla Khanlou F. Beryl Pilkington Editors
Women’s Mental Health Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction
Series Editor Masood Zangeneh
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13393
Nazilla Khanlou • F. Beryl Pilkington Editors
Women’s Mental Health Resistance and Resilience in Community and Society
Editors Nazilla Khanlou York University Toronto, ON, Canada
F. Beryl Pilkington York University Toronto, ON, Canada
Advances in Mental Health and Addiction ISBN 978-3-319-17325-2 ISBN 978-3-319-17326-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-17326-9
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Foreword
The lived experiences of women from racialized1 communities around mental health issues both as survivors and as service providers have been my primary focus, along with other community activists, on how to best address these issues within the mental health system. A report arising from the Healing Journey (1996) study, conducted in Toronto, demonstrated that important commonalities were evident in the entrenched lack of choices for racialized women in terms of their economic circumstances, support systems and the type of mental health care they need. The study found that such constraints point directly to racism as a structuring factor in how women become ill and how they are treated by the mental health system. Racialized women face many barriers in the mental health care system. The use of Western biomedical model as the universal standard of intervention for people experiencing mental health problems has been found ineffective and costly especially in addressing diverse needs. The practical effect of the domi
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