Social Psychiatry across Cultures Studies from North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa

Social Psychiatry across Cultures Studies from North America, Asia, Europe, and Africa / edited by Rumi Kato Price, Brent Mack Shea, Harsa N. Mookherjee.

The World Health Organization's concept of health as "the condition of psychophysical and social well-being" must be translated into opera­ tional terms. The objective is to place the human person within the social system, given that mental health, mental illness, and suffering are in...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Price, Rumi Kato (Editor), Shea, Brent Mack (Editor), Mookherjee, Harsa N. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
Edition:1st ed. 1995.
Series:Topics in Social Psychiatry
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Community psychology.
Environmental psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Sociology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Culture, Stratification, and Social Psychiatry
  • I. Studies Across Cultures
  • 1. Mentally Disturbed Patients in Nigeria: Problems and Prospects of Proper Rehabilitation
  • 2. Alcoholism in the Czech and Slovak Republics in the Last 30 Years: An Uneasy Legacy for the Reformers
  • 3. Psychoemotional Responses to the Existing Social Systems in Tribal Populations in India
  • 4. The Amish Life-Style in an Era of Rapid Social Change
  • 5. Reciprocity in Support Networks of Sheltered-Care Residents
  • II. Stratification Studies
  • 6. Ethnicity, Social Status, and Psychiatric Disorder in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Survey
  • 7. Sex Differences in the Relationship between Social Support and Mental Health
  • 8. Urban/Rural Differences in the Structure and Consequences of Social Support
  • III. Cultural Specificity and Universality
  • 9. Afro-Surinamese Enthnopsychiatry: A Transcultural Approach
  • 10. Family Composition, Birth Order, and Gender of Mexican Children in Psychological Treatment
  • 11. Protective Factors for Drug Abuse: A Prospectus for a Japanese-U.S. Epidemiologic Study
  • Conclusion: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Social Psychiatry.

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