Religion Ethnicity And Community Mental Health

Download or read book Religion, Ethnicity, and Community Mental Health written by Elizabeth M. Coker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful community mental health programs depend on strong social networks and cooperation between resource providers, both of which are complex products of local culture and history. The results of an ethnographic study of an unplanned urban neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt emphasize the importance of the political, social and historical context to community service development. The informal nature of the community, characterized by migrants from different ethnic and religious groups and a relative lack of governmental services, produced a culture of service provision that indirectly serves to accentuate religious and ethnic tensions. The findings are relevant not only to the developing world, but also to community program development in large, multicultural urban centers anywhere.