Immigration and mental health
Subtitle: stress, psychiatric disorders, and suicidal behavior among immigrants and refugees
By: Leo Sher, Alexander Vilens, editors
Series: Psychiatry - theory, applications and treatments
Publisher: Nova Science
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781616685034
Subjects: Mental Health; Psychological Stress; Acculturation; Immigrants; Mental health; Suicide; Emigrants and Immigrants; Mental Disorders; Psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A model of suicidal behavior among immigrants with psychiatric disorders / Leo Sher; title: Immigration and suicide : an overview / Brian Greenfield, Londa Daniel; title: Immigrants and suicidal behavior : the role of gender / Diana van Bergen and Sawitri Saharso; title: Suicidal behavior among Hispanic immigrants in the United States / Guilherme Borges, Liliana Mondragón, and Joshua Breslau; title: Suicidality and acculturation in Hispanic adolescents / Andres J. Pumariega, Eugenio M. Rothe, Jeffrey Swanson; title: Suicide amongst Britain's immigrant population : data sources, analytical approaches, and main findings / Peter J. Aspinall; title: The effects of immigration on the mental health of adolescents : depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, delinquent and suicidal behavior among immigrant youth / Dana Galler and Leo Sher; title: Acculturation and mental disorders among immigrants / Michael G. Madianos; title: Immigration, psychosocial factors, and psychological distress, with focus on perceived control and social integration / Odd Steffen Dalgard; title: Depression among Latinos in the United States / Patricia Gonzalez and Monica Rosales; title: Acculturation, acculturative stress, and depression among Haitians in the United States / Guerda Nicolas, Darren Bernal, and Seth Christman; title: Changes in the psychological well-being of immigrants : a three-year longitudinal study of immigrant adolescents including the pre-migration period / Eugene Tartakovsky; title: Mental health problems among immigrants in Israel / Alexander M. Ponizovsky; title: Epidemiology of mental health problems among immigrants : case of Korean immigrants in Brazil / Sam Chun-Kang ... [et al.]; title: Successful use of mental health migration models : the New Zealand experience / Regina Pernice; title: Substance use disorder among immigrants in the United States / Sun S. Kim ... [et al.]; title: Alcohol drinking and treatment among immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel : review of recent publications January 2007-June 2009 / Shoshana Weiss; title: The motives for migration / Michal Sabagh and Barbara S. Okun; title: The social and cultural context of immigration and stress / Katie Vasey and Lenore Manderson; title: Post-traumatic stress disorder : integration of biological and psychosocial aspects / María Dolores Braquehais Conesa, and Leo Sher; title: Impulsivity : a new concept for an old idea / María Dolores Braquehais Conesa; title: Not just another pretty face : the cross-cultural perception and social ramifications of facial attractiveness / Dana Galler.