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" Culture and Mental Health : "
Sussie Eshun
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BL
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722053
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b541762
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Sussie Eshun
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Culture and Mental Health : : Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice.\ Sussie Eshun
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Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2009
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(368 pages)
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1444305816
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: 9781444305814
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| Contents
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Culture and Mental Health; Contents; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I General Issues in Culture and Mental Health; 1 Introduction to Culture and Psychopathology; 2 Culture and Mental Health Assessment; 3 Stress and Mental Health; 4 Managing Job Stress: Cross-Cultural Variations in Adjustment; 5 Chronic Pain: Cultural Sensitivity to Pain; 6 Placing the Soul Back into Psychology: Religion in the Psychotherapy Process; 7 Psychotherapy in a Culturally Diverse World; 8 International Perspectives on Culture and Mental Health. Part II Cross-Cultural Issues in Specific Psychological Disorders9 Culture and Mood Disorders; 10 Culture and Anxiety Disorders; 11 Cultural Factors in Traumatic Stress; 12 Culture and Psychotic Disorders; 13 Culture and Eating Disorders; 14 Culture and Suicide; Author Index; Subject Index.
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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 standardizati.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Mental Disorders.
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RC455.4.E8S877 2009
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Regan A R Gurung
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Sussie Eshun
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