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

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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

Editor: Eshun, Sussie, Editor: Gurung, Regan A R

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1405169826
Language: English
Pages: 340

Additional information

Weight 1.43 lbs
Dimensions 9.64 × 6.73 × 0.84 in

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