Health & Mental Health Interventions

Question 1

Names Health & MH Interventions

Answer 1

L: none
R: Agger, Kienzler

Question 2

Tire one:

Answer 2

Approaches should be deeply rooted in community and incorporate traditional healing practices

Question 3

Tire two:

Answer 3

Provisions of enhanced access to political recognition and economic power so that individuals and communities can shape their own healing.

Question 4

R: MH interventions
A…: 6
K…: 4

Answer 4

Agger (Cambodia)

• W and E have different systems of meaning
• Cambodia lack mental health system
• Important to understand cultural meaning of symptoms
• Effects of trauma are experienced and expressed in different ways depending on culture
• Cambodian pop diagnosed using western diagnosis framework
• Different vision of death

Kienzler (Kosovo)

• Practices take place in different social, cultural and historical contexts
• bodies and minds are social entities embodying social circumstances
• medicalisation of symptoms and trauma turns survivors into victims and patients so less power
• need more culturally nuanced assessment, investigation into local knowledge.