Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context
Subtitle: A Casebook for Mental Health Professionals (Multicultural Aspects of Counseling And Psychotherapy)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: November 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780761917885
Subjects: Mental health services; Psychotherapy; Psychology; Ethnic Sociology; Counseling (Psychology); Social Science; Psychiatry, Transcultural; Multicultural Education; Ethnic Studies - General; Assessment, Testing & Measurement; Case Studies; Clinical Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Cross-cultural studies; Diagnosis; Mental illness
First sentence: The cross-cultural literature includes an extensive description of cultural variables that might directly or indirectly affect the diagnosis of mental disorders during the assessment of African American, American Indian, Asian, and Hispanic clients seen in mental health services (e.g., Canino &amp; Spurlock, 1994; Cuellar &amp; Paniagua, 2000; Dana, 1993b; Friedman, 1997; Gaw, 1993a; Gibbs &amp; Huang, 1998; Ho, 1987; Ivey, Ivey, &amp; Simek-Morgan, 1996; McAdoo, 1993; Paniagua, 1998; Pedersen, 1987, 1997; Pedersen, Draguns, Lonner, &amp; Trimble, 1996; Ponterotto, Casas, Suzuki, &amp; Alexander, 1995; Roubideaux, 1999; D. W. Sue &amp; D. Sue, 1999).