Assessing Mental Health Across Cultures
Contributors: Stolk, Yvonne; Klimidis, Steven
Publisher: Australian Academic Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Bowen Hills
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781875378913; 9781281709066
Subjects: Psychopathology; Mental Health; PSYCHOLOGY; Clinical Psychology; Transcultural Psychiatry; General; Mental Illness; Psychiatry; MEDICAL; Cultural psychiatry
Description: Provides a framework for mental health professionals and students to obtain an in-depth understanding of a client whose cultural background is different to their own.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contents; List of Information Boxes; Preface; Acknowledgements; The Authors; Issues and Dilemmas in Diagnosis Across Cultures; Cultural Values, the Sense of Self and Psychiatric Assessment; Expression and Communication of Distress Across Cultures; Issues in Translating Mental Health Terms Across Cultures; Explanatory Models of Illness; Crosscultural Beliefs about Illness; Negotiating Explanatory Models; Conclusion; References; Index.