A review of mental health strategies within minorities to inform a community-centered method for increasing help seeking for Muslim Canadians
Canada’s Muslim population is growing every year. Cultural minorities including religious minorities face unique barriers that make healthcare, including mental healthcare, inaccessible for them. One such minority group that struggles to access mental health services is Muslim Canadians. Accessing mental health services is called “help seeking”. Many Muslims feel that current services are inadequate for them. My project sought to identify how to improve help seeking for Muslim Canadians. In my preliminary review, I noticed a lack of research about Muslim Canadians and strategies for mental healthcare. I also found that Muslims are a very heterogenous group. Then, I found other minority groups who share similarities with Muslims and that experience trouble with help seeking. There was more research on mental health within these groups, so this overlap would help me make recommendations that can increase help seeking for Muslim Canadians given the lack of literature in this specific area. My findings are summarized in my poster.
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Hi Fatima, Beccy and I from Leeds enjoyed meeting Shradda last week in London. Gulana and Sarah- scholars from Leeds are doing their LiA at Muslim welfare and are travelling next week. Maybe you'll get to meet them?
Best wishes
Marcus