Race, culture, ethnicity and personality disorder: Group Careif position paper (Ascoli, Lee, Bhui, 2011)
Micol Ascoli, Tennyson Lee, Nasir Warfa, Joe Mairura, Albert Persaud, Kamaldeep Bhui
World Cultural Psychiatry Research Review, 6(1): 52-60.
This paper summaries the discussion points and conclusions from a UK Department of Health Funded exercise to develop a position statement on personality disorder and ethnicity. Unlike the significant literature on ethnicity and psychoses, detentions, admissions and pathways to care, there is little published on inequalities in
access to and experience of effective mental health care for people with personality difficulties and personality disorders. Although notions of ethnicity, personality and personality disorders can each be contested as conceptually heterogenous categories, and that priority should be given to more in-depth validation work before considering practicalities, the development of personality disorder services, and the implications of overlooking the role of personality function in the planning and provision of services requires some position to be taken; a working paper was produced using a critical enquiry method.