TY - JOUR PY - 2007 SN - 1972-4837 T1 - Sulla costruzione di dispositivi clinici transculturali nei servizi pubblici di salute mentale JO - GRUPPI DA - 4/15/2008 12:00:00 AM DO - UR - http://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_rivista.aspx?idArticolo=32607 AU - Prato, Michela Da AU - Cardamone, Giuseppe AU - Zorzetto, Sergio SP - 37 EP - 48 IS - 3 VL - IX LA - IT AB - Transnational migration challenges mental health services, as people coming from other geocultural worlds bring with them diverse ways of manifesting and coping with illness and suffering, and different therapeutic views. In recent years, there has been a dramatic rise in the number of foreigner patients in the mental health services of Prato (Italy). Linguistic difficulties and cultural misapprehensions urged psychiatrists and psychologists to develop a new methodological approach and to open their clinical settings to other professionals (anthropologists, linguists, interpreters, etc.). This article presents an analysis of such methodological developments, pointing out their organizational implications. Key words: clinical methodology, ethnopsychiatry, public service. PB - FrancoAngeli ER -