Assessing Mental Health Across Cultures [Paperback]

Lena Andary is a clinical psychologist who has worked with mental health services since 1992, including acute psychiatric inpatient units, crisis assessment and treatment teams and outpatient clinics. At the time of writing her position was as Ethnic Mental Health Consultant, which involved assisting mental health services in the Eastern Region and Inner South of Melbourne to improve their responsiveness to consumers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Lena’s work has included the development and implementation of policy, research, training and education of mental health clinicians and community development. Her particular area of interest has been the clinical implications of working with persons from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds in terms of assessment, understanding and treatment. Lena is also a member of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis and teaches part of the Graduate Diploma in Community Mental Health offered by Melbourne University.

Yvonne Stolk is a clinical psychologist who worked for 8 years in col³q