Culture and mental health
Sussie Eshun, Regan A. R. Gurung · 2009
על הספר
"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"--Provided by publisher.
פרטי הספר
- שנה
- 2009
- שפה
- English
- הוצאה
- Wiley-Blackwell
- מהדורות
- 5
- עמודים
- 340
- ISBN
- 9781405169837
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