Perspectives in cross-cultural psychiatry
By: edited by Anna M. Georgiopoulos, Jerrold F. Rosenbaum.
Contributors: Georgiopoulos, Anna M.; Rosenbaum, J. F.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Brand: Lippincott Williams n Wilkins
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Psychiatry, Transcultural; Psychotherapy -- Cross-cultural studies; Mental health policy; Mental Disorders -- ethnology; Mental Disorders -- therapy; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Ethnic Groups -- psychology; Psychiatry -- methods
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Psychopharmacotherapy in the age of accelerating diversity / Joann Ng, Keh-Ming Lin, Michael Smith; title: Illness beliefs of depressed Chinese American patients in a primary care setting / Albert Yeung and Raymond Kam; title: Panic attacks in traumatized Southeast Asian refugees: mechanisms and treatment implications / Devon E. Hinton, Vuth Pich, and Mark H. Pollack; title: Ataque de nervios: anthropological, epidemiological, and clinical dimensions of a cultural syndrome / Roberto Lewis-Fernández ... [et al.]; title: Psychiatric treatment of Hispanic patients / David Mischoulon; title: Postpartum mood disturbance in cross-cultural perspective / Anna M. Georgiopoulos, Amy B. Saltzman, and Anne E. Becker; title: Bipolar disorder in African Americans / William B. Lawson; title: Psychoanalytic therapy with Asians and Asian Americans / Alan Roland; title: Telling ?ten percent of the story?: narrative and the intergenerational transmission of trauma among Cambodian refugees / Audrey Rubin and Lorna Rhodes; title: Language in the cross-cultural encounter: working with and without medical interpreters / Siobhan M. O'Neill; title: Prejudice and institution, change and resistance: dismantling the children's psychiatric hospital of Attica / Stelios Stylianidis, M-G Lily Stylianoudi, and Panayiotis Chondros; title: The African renaissance and the struggle for mental health in the African diaspora / Frederick W. Hickling; title: International mental health in the 21st century / Gregory L. Fricchione; title: International child mental health / Myron L. Belfer; title: Mental health in areas of conflict / Barbara Lopes Cardozo and Gregory L. Fricchione; title: Important considerations in fostering growth of a research culture in the developing world / Anne E. Becker; title: Project 1 billion: a global model for the mental health recovery of post-conflict societies / Laura S. McDonald, Robina Bhasin, and Richard F. Mollica.