Engaging Refugee and Immigrant Families in Mental Health Services

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Entry 2: Working Cross-Culturally
Summary
The “Working cross-culturally” piece majorly addresses the specific strategies to provide culturally responsive mental healthcare, especially among refugees. The piece stresses that refugees experience mental issues due to different traumatic events (Ellis et al., 2020). The major strategies to address mental problems include cultural competence and humility. The integration between cultural humility and competence is the best way to foster solutions that would assist mentally unstable individuals in restoring their health. The piece relates to different topics such as humane orientation since it integrates cultural barriers and human nature issues.
Critical Review
Based on the critical review, the piece adequately addresses specific ways of working cross-culturally to resolve different mental issues. The most vital part is bridging linguistic and cultural barriers. These are two critical areas determining mental stability among special populations, such as refugees, due to mental issues (Ellis et al., 2020). However, the central aspect missing in the piece is gender egalitarianism. According to Halliday et al. (2020), gender egalitarianism focuses on cultural roles, responsibilities, and rights, shaping cultural growth. Therefore, whenever the authors considered egalitarianism in the piece, it would be easy to integrate cultural competence and humility, leading to proper responsiveness. I would improve the piece by considering the negative and positive effects of cultural competence and humility. I would also enhance the piece by widening the scope by specifying the cultural barriers that jeopardize mental health issues. The approach would resolve recurrent mental and culturally integrated health problems.
Discussion Question
The critical question that can highlight the piece's argument is 'should experts integrate cultural competence and humility to resolve cultural and language barriers?' The question is vital since it links cultural humility, competence, and barriers and argues that psychological illness relies on different cultural phenomena (Ellis et al., 2020). It also insists that cross-cultural works effectively reduce mental health among marginalized groups. Therefore, the strong correlation between cultural phenomena such as competence and humility is appropriate for mental problems.
Entry 3: Engaging Refugee and Immigrant Families in Mental Families in Mental Health Services
Summary
The piece focuses on different barriers that refugees and immigrants face while assessing mental health services. The primary barrier is resettlement stressors which are resolved by widening the scope of treatment (Ellis et al., 2020). Other barriers include distrust from the authorities, stigmatization, language, and cultural factors. The piece also specifies the strategies to deal with the barriers, such as community engagement, promoting service systems, and cultural programs. Among the identified solutions, cultural programs are the most viable since they resolve acculturation stressors. The summary links to mental and psychological health topics.
Critical Review
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