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Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Edition:
- 1st
- Author:
- Eshun, Sussie; Gurung, Regan A.R.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- ISBN:
- 978-1-40-516983-7
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Description
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Description
Takes a critical look at the research pertaining to common psychological disorders, examining how mental health can be studied from and vary according to different cultural perspectives.
Key features:
Key features:
- Introduces students to the main topics and issues in the area of mental health using culture as the focus
- Emphasizes issues that pertain to conceptualization, perception, health-seeking behaviors, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the context of cultural variations
- Reviews and actively encourages the reader to consider issues related to reliability, validity and standardization of commonly used psychological assessment instruments among different cultural groups
- Highlights the widely used DSM-IV-TR categorization of culture-bound syndromes
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Eshun, Sussie; Gurung, Regan A.R.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-40-516983-7
- Specialty:
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- Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st
- Pages:
- 368
- Publication Year:
- 2009