Meeting the Needs of Ethnic Minority Children - Including Refugee, Black and Mixed Parentage Children

Inga-Britt Krause is Training and Development Consultant with special reference to race and equity at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust where she also works as a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service. She first trained as a Social Anthropologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science and teaches widely, nationally and internationally, on the subject of social science and psychotherapy and about the place of culture and race in clinical practice and theory. Begum Maitra is a Child Psychiatrist in private practice, an independent expert in public and private law cases involving children and an adult psychotherapist. She trained as a psychiatrist in India and worked for many years as a Consultant child psychiatrist in the British National Health Service in inner city London. She specialises in the role of culture as it relates to the assessment of children and families, particularly of risk, in individual therapy, and through workshops, lectures and conferences for voluntary and statutory organisations.

• Preface, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. Foreword, Professor Richard Williams, University of Glamorgan. 1. Introduction, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. 2. Culture and Personality, Kedar Nath Dwivedi. 3. Mental Health Needs of Ethnic Minority Children, Rajeev Banhatti, Northampton Child and Family Services, and Surya Bhate, The Tees and North East Yorkshire Trust. 4. Family Therapy and Ethnic Minorities, Annie Lau, North East London Mental Health Trust. 5. Children, Families and Therapists: Clinical considerations and ethnic minority cultures, Begum Maitra, Child and Family Consultation Centre, Hammersmith, and Ann Miller, Marlborough Family Service. 6. Can talking about culture be therapeutic? Tasneen Fateh, Nurum Islam, Farra Khan, Cecilia Ko, Marigold Lee, Rubia Malik, Marlborough Family Service, and Inga-Britt Krause, Tavistock and Portman Mental Health Trust. 7. What is a Positive Black Identity? Nick Banks, University of Nottingham. 8. The Emergence of Ethnicity: A tale of three cultures, John Burnham, Birmingham Children's Hospital (NHS) Trust, and Queenie Harris, Charles Burn Clinic, Birmingham. 9. Anti-racist Strategies for Educational Performance: Facilitating successful learning for all children, Gerry German, Communities Empowerment Network. 10. Mixed Race Children and Families, Nick Banks, University of Nottingham. 11. Adoption of Children from Minority Groups, Professor Harry Zeitlin, North Essex Child and Family Consultation Service. 12. Residential Care for Ethnic Minority Children, Harish Mehra, Birmingham Social Services. 13. Practical Approaches to Work with Refugee Children, Jeremy Woodcock, University of Bristol. 14. Community and Youth work with Asian Women and Girls, Radha Dwivedi, Northampton Child and Family Services. 15. A Conceptual Framework of Identity Formation in a Society of Multiple Cultures: Applying theory to practice, James Rodriquez, Family Research Consortium, Ana Marie Cauce, Department of Psychology, Seattle, and Linda Wilson, Casey Family Programs, Seattle. Bibliographic References. Index

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