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Minority Voices – Mental Health Representations in Roma Portuguese Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
Abstract
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• Introduction
Systemized research on the social representations of mental health in minority groups is scarce and it is even scarcer with Roma communities.
• Aim
This paper describes a research conducted from the perspective of social representations theory exploring the understanding of mental ill-health amongst Roma communities residing in the center region of Portugal (Coimbra).
• Methods
A qualitative ethnographic study was conducted. Data from observations, interviews with key informants, field notes and Focus groups were analyzed
Results
Findings suggest that the culturally-based conceptions of mental health and emotional well-being in these Roma participants have a holistic approach, without a clear separation between the concept of 'physical health” and 'mental health”.
In this study, the notion of mental health and emotional well-being was strongly associated with the family’s well-being, including the extended family, and not only with the individual well-being
Conclusions
Mental health promoting programs in Roma communities should integrate families in structural interventions and, an ecological approach.
- Type
- Article: 1281
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
- Copyright
- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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