Culture and mental health
Subtitle: sociocultural influences, theory, and practice
By: edited by Sussie Eshun and Regan A.R. Gurung.
Contributors: Eshun, Sussie.; Gurung, Regan A. R.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Malden, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781405169837; 9781405169820
Subjects: Cultural psychiatry; Mental Disorders -- ethnology; Mental Disorders -- psychology; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Mental Health; Psychotherapy -- methods
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to culture and psychopathology / Sussie Eshun and Regan A.R. Gurung; title: Culture and mental health assessment / Bonnie A. Green; title: Stress and mental health / Regan A.R. Gurung and Angela Roethel-Wendorf; title: Managing job stress : cross-cultural variations in adjustment / Joseph P. Eshun and Kevin J. Kelly; title: Chronic pain : cultural sensitivity to pain / Jyh-Hann Chang; title: Placing the soul back into psychology : religion in the psychotherapy process / Paul E. Priester, Shiva Khalili, and Jose E. Luvathingal; title: Psychotherapy in a culturally diverse world / Laura R. Johnson, Gilberte Bastien, and Michael J. Hirschel; title: Culture and mental health : an international perspective / P.S.D.V. Prasadarao; title: Culture and mood disorders / Sussie Eshun and Toy Caldwell-Colbert; title: Culture and anxiety disorders / Simon A. Rego; title: Cultural factors in traumatic stress / Peter D. Yeomans and Evan M. Forman; title: Culture and psychotic disorders / Kristin M. Vespia; title: Culture and eating disorders / Megan A. Markey, Jillon S. Vander Wal & Judith L. Gibbons; title: Culture and suicide / David Lester.