Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental Illness

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Albert Gaw
American Psychiatric Press, 1993 - 640 pages
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In recent years there has been a greater recognition of how cultural concepts, values, and beliefs influence the way mental symptoms are expressed, how individuals and their families respond to mental distresses and to psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, and how mental health care is delivered community-wide.

This comprehensive, clinically oriented volume examines the expression and treatment of mental illness in the context of culture. Written by 35 international experts in the field, Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental Illness covers the areas of the clinical encounter in which culture plays a prominent role, including psychiatric epidemiology, psychotherapy, culture-bound syndromes, and psychiatric assessment.

Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental Illness provides a cultural framework in the psychiatric care of a variety of groups in the United States, including African Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, Hispanics, women, elderly people, and gay men and lesbians. There is also a chapter dealing with the impact of AIDS among minorities. Eight glossaries of ethnic terms, including foreign language characters, are included.

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Although rivaled by the escalating use of cocaine , alcohol abuse and
dependence remain a central focus of substance abuse in the African American
community ( Primm and Wesley 1985 ) . It is important to note that alcohol abuse
in the ...
Page 217
It is true that alcohol abuse is so common in some Indian communities that it may
be accepted as the norm . Increasingly , however , Indian people and
communities have been speaking out against this point of view , in an attempt to
redefine ...
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they suggest ways to meet basic emotional needs more adequately .
Hydrocarbon sniffing has been considered a gateway drug for other substance
abuse in Indian adolescents , and such abuse continues to exist ( Strimba and
Sims 1974 ) .

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Contents

Theoretical Considerations
3
Practical Considerations
43
CultureBound Syndromes
75
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About the author (1993)

Albert C. Gaw, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California in San Francisco, California. Dr. Gaw also serves as the Medical Director for Long Term Care at the Community Mental Health Services of the Department of Public Health for the City and County of San Francisco. He further works as the Medical Director of the San Francisco Mental Health Rehabilitation Facility of San Francisco General Hospital for the Community Health Network of San Francisco of the Department of Public Health for the City and County of San Francisco.

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TitleCulture, Ethnicity, and Mental Illness
EditorAlbert Gaw
Editionillustrated
PublisherAmerican Psychiatric Press, 1993
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized5 Aug 2008
ISBN0880483598, 9780880483599
Length640 pages
  
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