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What is social and medical anthropologyDefinition

Medical anthropology provides a better understanding of the importance of patients' cultural, social and religious heritage in providing better care in an intercultural context: from consultation to therapeutic follow-up.

What is the contribution of medical anthropology to medical and psychosocial practice?

– Permettre aux professionnels des champs médicaux-psychosociaux et juridiques d’accéder aux états de conscience modifiés.
– améliorer le bien-être des patients
– Outiller les professionnels par de nouvelles méthodes à adopter dans la pratique à travers plusieurs disciplines :

Family, criminal, social and cultural mediation,

Mediation is a process in which a neutral third party helps to resolve conflicts.

Psychosocial counsellors in a multicultural context

 

Their role is crucial in providing effective and culturally sensitive support.

the intercultural and/or transcultural approach

 These approaches make it possible to adapt interventions to better meet diverse needs and promote mutual understanding.

the integrative medical approach

This approach seeks to optimise clinical outcomes by harmonising the different care modalities.

REPRESENTATIONS IN INTERCULTURAL MEDIATION

This book presents the approach and results of a study on the representations of French and Quebec family mediators in disputes between mixed couples.

Drawing on both social work and anthropology, the research interviews some forty social workers. At the end, the emergence and characteristics of the representations of intercultural mediators are contextualised and analysed, along with the issues of immigration and the judicialisation of intervention practices.

Finally, and despite its influence in social work, the social psychology thesis, which sees representations as defence mechanisms, has been reconsidered by the anthropological approach, which sees them more as an instrument of domination.

A qualitative approach to theoretical, documentary and empirical resources, this study examines the representations and biases that need to be overcome in social work.