Culture, Ethnicity, and Mental IllnessAlbert Gaw American Psychiatric Press, 1993 - 640 pages The book 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. Eight glossaries of ethnic terms, including foreign language characters, are included. |
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... concept is this that would make it so difficult to include effectively in such an evaluation procedure ? ' 3 " Culture " is an emergent concept . Its essential character relates to a matrix type of intuition , and attempting to ...
... concept is this that would make it so difficult to include effectively in such an evaluation procedure ? ' 3 " Culture " is an emergent concept . Its essential character relates to a matrix type of intuition , and attempting to ...
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... concept - be it a field type or a more segmental one - must have an origin in data . The two kinds of data on which concepts of culture are based are behavior ( what people do , say , and think ) , and artifacts ( what they have made in ...
... concept - be it a field type or a more segmental one - must have an origin in data . The two kinds of data on which concepts of culture are based are behavior ( what people do , say , and think ) , and artifacts ( what they have made in ...
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Albert Gaw. Culture and Ethnicity The root concept for the term " ethnicity " is culture . Ethnicity is a deriva- tive concept that recognizes the in - group values conceptualized by a partic- ular cultural group , such as " Italian ...
Albert Gaw. Culture and Ethnicity The root concept for the term " ethnicity " is culture . Ethnicity is a deriva- tive concept that recognizes the in - group values conceptualized by a partic- ular cultural group , such as " Italian ...
Contents
Theoretical Considerations | 3 |
Practical Considerations | 49 |
Simons M D M A | 75 |
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acculturation African American alcohol abuse American Indian American patients American Psychiatric Association anxiety Arch Gen Psychiatry areas Asian Americans Asian patients assessment behavior beliefs Chinese Americans clinical clinician colleagues concept cross-cultural cultural culture-bound syndromes depression diagnostic disease dosage drug Edited effects emotional Epidemiologic ethnic groups evaluation experience factors family members haloperidol healers healing Hispanic homosexuality hospital hwa-byung immigrants important individual Indochinese interview Japan Japanese Americans Kinzie Korean American language lesbians living major male medicine ment mental disorders mental health mental health services mental illness Mexican Americans Morita therapy nisei person Philippines Pilipino Americans population Press prevalence rates problems programs psychiatric disorders psychological psychopathology psychotherapy Puerto Ricans refugees relationship reported response role sample schizophrenia sexual social somatic suicide symptoms term therapeutic therapist therapy tion traditional treatment United Westermeyer Western women Yamamoto York
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American Psychiatric Press Review of Psychiatry, Volume 12 Michelle B. Riba,Allan Tasman No preview available - 1993 |
Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients: A Practical Guide Freddy A. Paniagua No preview available - 2005 |