Product Description: Book by Wen-Shing Tseng, John F McDermott, Jr

Product Description: Discover brilliant insights on dealing with the cultural aspects of family mental health with this landmark guide. Culture and Family systematically reviews various dimensions of the family from a cross-cultural perspective, including system, development, behavior, and functioning...read more

Product Description: In addition to various biological and psychological factors, sociocultural factors have a tremendous impact on suicidal behaviour. It is therefore possible to examine patterns of suicidal behaviour as observed in various sociocultural environments...read more

Product Description: The 24 essays collected in this volume present the latest research on the specifically Chinese experience of mental health. The contributors, all mental health professionals, discuss a range of disorders found in Chinese communities in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and abroad...read more

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cultural diversity has always been a fact of life, nowhere more so than in the unique melting pot of U.S. society. Respecting and understanding that diversity is an important -- and challenging -- goals. Culture and Psychotherapy: A Guide to Clinical Practice brings us closer to that goal by offering a fresh perspective on how to bring an understanding of cultural diversity to the practice of psychotherapy to improve treatment outcomes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Increasingly, psychologists are becoming aware of sensitivity needs with respect to treating patients from differing cultures. Culture can play an important role both in what a patient discloses about themselves, how likely they are to follow a therapist's advice, and whether specific therapies are likely to be effective for them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Building on their previous works about cultural competency in clinical areas and in psychotherapy, the editors have created in this volume an exceptional and entirely new approach to understanding and acquiring cultural competency...read more

Draws upon recent fieldwork to present a variety of methodological approaches to the study of African religious history as a structural whole

Product Description: Psychotherapy is informed and enriched by the therapist’s knowledge of different cultural perspectives. In order to provide suitable psychotherapy, the therapist needs to consider the cultural dimensions of patients, as well as their biological and psychological dimensions...read more