Cultural Variations in Psychopathology
Barnow, Sven / Balkir, Nazli
Improving mental health care through culturally sensitive research and practice
Culturally sensitive practice is a vital component of effective mental health care
in our increasingly diverse societies: Mental illnesses vary in prevalence between
cultural and ethnic groups, as do the meanings attached to them and people's
responses to them. The important implications of this interplay between culture
and psychopathology for diagnosis and treatm...