SW5
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Title
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SW5
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Type
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Interview
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Date
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August 4th, 2021
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Description
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The respondent is a licensed clinical psychologist and assistant director of the clinic where he works. He has been working with Muslim caregivers/individuals with ability differences for about seven years. He shared some of the challenges their patients report in the clinical setting. The biggest challenge is getting support, sensitivity, and understanding from their loved ones. The other challenge is acceptance of the individual, because they have so many other strengths. For example, when someone learns you’re depressed or have anxiety, there's often automatically a stigma and people start judging others. The respondent also discussed challenges they face as a provider of care. These include lack of resources and being stretched too thin with waiting lists. Everyone should have access to quality care and counselling as preventative care in addition to reactive care. Other challenges are not having enough therapists who can offer spiritually integrated psychotherapy, not having enough “brown” therapists in general, and the need for more education and awareness. We need resources for providers, especially more centralized resources for providers, including how to get find someone to consult with. Yet, he also reported that awareness of mental health has increased in the last few years, which offers us hope. Lastly, he identified several resources that AMWRRI’s might want to include in its webpage.
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Language
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English
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Subject
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motivation to change and work on self, patients exhibit culturally specific symptoms of depression, anxiety, etc. Culturally sensitive and religion centered approaches to therapy. Stigma and prejudice of mental health disorders. Need for services for both patients and providers. Importance of self-care for providers. Compassion fatigue. “With knowledge is awareness, with more knowledge and awareness come less stigma.”, Disability
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