Concise Guide to Cross-cultural Psychiatry

Concise Guide to Cross-cultural Psychiatry
ISBN-10
0880489073
ISBN-13
9780880489072
Category
Psychology / Psychotherapy / General
Pages
237
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
American Psychiatric Press
Author
Albert Gaw

Description

As society becomes more diverse and the world evolves into a global village, the need to integrate culture into medicine and psychiatry has become increasingly critical-challenging clinicians to provide the most effective psychiatric care to patients of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

The author of this groundbreaking guide presents an overview of culture in psychiatry using fascinating case studies to propose that ethnicity be used as a central organizing principle to integrate cultural factors in psychiatric care. This book summarizes the specific cultural contribution in each section of the diagnostic categories of DSM-IV and clarifies today's hot issues on how to define and classify culture-bound syndromes. It highlights the technique of elucidating cultural information during a routine psychiatric interview and details cross-cultural psychopharmacology. It also focuses on the sociocultural factors that affect psychopharmacology and the issue of nonadherence and explores the cultural context of psychotherapy.

Designed to fit into a lab-coat or jacket pocket, these convenient guides complement the more detailed information found in lengthier psychiatric texts. Packed with practical information and enhanced with illustrations, references, and a glossary, this Concise Guide will appeal to psychiatrists, psychiatric residents, and medical students working in treatment settings such as inpatient psychiatry units, outpatient clinics, consultation--liaison services, and private offices.

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