Culture and Mental Health
：Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice
Publication subTitle ：Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice
Author： Sussie Eshun
Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9781444305814
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781405169820
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781405169837
Subject： R749.05 phrenotherapy
Language： ENG
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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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