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Culture and Mental Health 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.
  • 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

Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice

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Paperback / softback by Sussie Eshun , Regan A. R. Gurung

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 16/01/2009
    ISBN13: 9781405169820, 978-1405169820
    ISBN10: 1405169826

    Number of Pages: 368

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

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    Description

    Culture and Mental Health 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.
    • 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

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