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Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry

Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry

Wen-Shing Tseng

(2001)

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Abstract

Cultural psychiatry is primarily concerned with the transcultural aspects of mental health related to human behavior, psychopathology and treatment. At a clinical level, cultural psychiatry aims to promote culturally relevant mental health care for patients of diverse ethnic or cultural backgrounds. From the standpoint of research, cultural psychiatry is interested in studying how ethnic or cultural factors may influence human behavior and psychopathology as well as the art of healing. On a theoretical level, cultural psychiatry aims to expand the knowledge and theories about mental health-related human behavior and mental problems by widening the sources of information and findings transculturally, and providing cross-cultural validation. This work represents the first comprehensive attempt to pull together the clinical, research and theoretical findings in a single volume.
Key Features
* Written by a nationally and internationally well-known author and scholar
* The material focuses not only on the United States but also on various cultural settings around the world so that the subject matter can be examined broadly from universal as well as cross-cultural perspectives
* Proper combination of clinical practicalities and conceptual discussion
* Serves as a major source for use in the training of psychiatric residents and mental health personnel as well as students of behavior science in the areas of culture and mental health
* A total of 50 chapters with detailed cross-referencing
* Nearly 2000 references plus an appendix of almost 400 books
* 130 tables and figures
"...this is a gem of a book, a rich source of data.. this book is one of encyclopedic proportions."
--AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
"...this volume stands alone as the encyclopedic knowledge repository for the relatively young field of cross-cultural psychiatry... "
—CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY
"This remarkable piece of work is bound to become a classic reference in psychiatry."
—TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
"This book should be a welcome addition to anyone's library as a basic textbook.. and as a reference text for cultural psychiatry."
—PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
"The Handbook of Cultural Psychiatry represents a landmark achievement... It is destined to become a classic in the field."
—JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
"This is a great book that deserves to be... used as a desk-side reference for clinicians in their daily clinical work."
—JAPANESE JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY
"There is currently no other volume like it on the market."
—INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY
"the book provides an expansive and conclusive array of information...the author provides a one-stop oasis..."
—DOODY PUBLICATIONS
"Tseng's goal was to write the first comprehensive, single-authored handbook on the field... He succeeds admirably..."
—LIBRARY JOURNAL (October 15, 2001)
"This handbook fills a gap! The present volume is a crowning achievement..."
—Wolfgang G. Jilek, M.D., M.A., M.Sc., Dipl. Psych., FRCP(C)
Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia; and former Chair, Transcultural Psychiatric Section, World Psychiatric Association
"This is a unique volume in its comprehensiveness. Scholarly, authoritative, and up-to-date, it is also fresh and vivid."
—Juris G. Draguns, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
"This long-awaited compendium provides a unified overview of the field."
—Raymond Prince, M.D.
Professor, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University; and former Editor, Transcultural Psychiatric Review