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Culture and Mental Health: Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice [Kindle Edition]

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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
  • File Size: 3577 KB
  • Print Length: 362 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 9, 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002LVTY4O
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Lending: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #797,148 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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

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