Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and PracticeISBN: 978-1-4051-6982-0
Paperback
368 pages
January 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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