Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice
- ISBN-10
- 1444305816
- ISBN-13
- 9781444305814
- Category
- Psychology
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-02-11
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Regan A. R. Gurung, Sussie Eshun
Description
Culture and Mental Health takes a critical look at theresearch pertaining to common psychological disorders, examininghow mental health can be studied from and vary according todifferent cultural perspectives. Introduces students to the main topics and issues in the areaof mental health using culture as the focus Emphasizes issues that pertain to conceptualization,perception, health-seeking behaviors, assessment, diagnosis, andtreatment in the context of cultural variations Reviews and actively encourages the reader to consider issuesrelated to reliability, validity and standardization of commonlyused psychological assessment instruments among different culturalgroups Highlights the widely used DSM-IV-TR categorization ofculture-bound syndromes
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