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Synthesizing Culture and Power in Community Mental Health: An Emerging Framework

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
5 July 2010

Abstract

Mental health services in western English-speaking countries are struggling to respond to growing cultural and racial diversity. The overall purpose of the Community University Research Alliance (CURA) study was to explore, develop, pilot, and evaluate how best to provide community-based mental health supports that are effective for people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Using a participatory action research approach within a multimethod design, the study partnership has developed an emerging framework that synthesizes the ideals of previous culture-oriented and power-oriented models. The emerging framework has 3 main components: values that guide concrete actions that in turn produce desired outcomes. Central to the emerging framework is the need for reciprocal collaboration between the mental health system and cultural-linguistic communities.

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Les services de santé mentale des pays anglophones de l'Occident se démènent pour répondre à une diversité culturelle et raciale grandissante. Le but général de l'étude de l'Alliance de recherche université-communauté (ARUC) était d'explorer, de développer, de piloter et d'évaluer la meilleure façon de fournir des services de santé mentale communautaires pour les gens provenant de divers milieux culturels. Utilisant une approche de recherche-action participative au sein d'un plan multi-méthodes, l'association d'étude a développé une structure émergente qui rassemble les idéaux des modèles précédents qui s'orientaient vers la culture et le pouvoir. Cette structure émergente comprend 3 composantes principales: des valeurs menant à des actions concrètes qui à leur tour engendrent les résultats désirés. Le pivot de cette structure émergente est le besoin de collaboration réciproque entre les communautés culturelles-linguistiques et le système de santé mentale.

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 29Number 1April 2010
Pages: 51 - 67

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Version of record online: 5 July 2010

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Rich Janzen
Centre for Community Based Research
Joanna Ochocka
Centre for Community Based Research
Nora Jacobson
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and University of Toronto
Sarah Maiter
Laura Simich
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and University of Toronto
Anne Westhues
Wilfrid Laurier University
Augie Fleras
University of Waterloo

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