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

Sussie Eshun (Editor), Regan A. R. Gurung (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-6983-7
Hardcover
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

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