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Psychiatric Services (59)6 2008
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Although many consultants had little previous familiarity with the cultural formulation, most found it useful in organizing their assessment and preparing consultation reports. The cultural formulation is a useful tool for nonmedical consultants and culture brokers, as well as for clinicians....
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PMID: 18511590
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Psychiatrische Praxis (34)7 2007
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Of 109 potential papers, only 9 included an evaluation of the model to improve the cultural competency practice and service delivery. All 9 studies were located in North America. Cultural competency included modification of clinical practice and organizational performance. Few studies published thei...
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PMID: 17266765
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Alaska Medicine (49)2 Suppl 2007
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The contemporary situation in psychiatric science is as follows: 1) increased sick rate with chronic neuro-mental disorders (in the first turn with lingering neurotic states, psychosomatic disturbances, depressive and addictive disorders), 2) need in development of integral prevention of chronic hum...
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PMID: 17929645
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Alaska Medicine (49)2 Suppl 2007
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The studies allowed us to work out normative indices of physical development, functional state of the systems of hemopoiesis, blood circulation, immunity, exchange of microelements and electrolytes, to reveal the region's peculiarities of functional indices of a number of life supporting systems and...
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PMID: 17929630
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In the drive to establish a naturalistic psychology in France, anthropological assumptions about a hierarchy of physically determined racial groups with inherent psychological characteristics and about the nearly insurmountable retardation of primitive cultures permeated the work of the founder of F...
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PMID: 17205542
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British Journal of Social Psychology (45)Pt 4 2006
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The closing decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill. This paper describes a study of the social representation of mental illness by mental health professionals working in Britain and France during this time of major policy...
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PMID: 17393882
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I encountered a series of challenges and limitations emerging from respondent reservations about sharing personal experiences of difficulty and distress, and the perceived means for redressing these. Focusing upon a difficult interview with a knowledgeable tribal elder, I enlist sociolinguistic anal...
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PMID: 16794877
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We made and did not make contributed to our struggles and frustration and also to the insight that was gained. Our analysis examines the importance of clear communication, cultural awareness, tailoring evaluation, and meaningful participation. We believe that the lessons we learned will help facilit...
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PMID: 16718538
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The literature on borderline personality disorder (BPD), including its epidemiology, biology, phenomenology, causes, correlates, consequences, costs, treatments, and outcomes is vast. Thousands of articles and books have been published. Because the true prevalence of BPD by sex (gender) in the gener...
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PMID: 16352513
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We accept that psychiatry and the illnesses with which it deals are parts of culture. Anthropologists have long argued that psychiatric theory and practice are best understood using the same interpretive tools as are applied to other areas of cultural life, be it religion, cosmology or magic....
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PMID: 16463597
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Transcultural Psychiatry (42)3 2005
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We review, from an anthropological point of view, the different paradigms that have prevailed over the last 50 years....
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PMID: 16268233
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Transcultural Psychiatry (42)3 2005
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The experience of the first 20 years of a community mental health service for the Asian communities in Toronto, the Hong Fook Mental Health Association, is presented within the context of the overall development of mental health services to ethnocultural minorities in Toronto and Canada. The various...
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PMID: 16268238
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Transcultural Psychiatry (42)3 2005
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Cross-cultural mental health services were assessed using qualitative interviews and focus groups of 43 mental health clinicians and program directors in one of the most ethnically integrated cities in the U.S. The commonly used strategy of ethnic matching between clinician and patient was found to...
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PMID: 16268240
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Transcultural Psychiatry (42)3 2005
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Ethnopsychiatry is today a contested field, in which concepts and terms such as ethnicity, identity, culture, citizenship, traditional therapies or symbolic efficacy are used in a very controversial way. Recent accusations of'racism' against some ethnopsychiatrists have contributed to making more ob...
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PMID: 16268234
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Transcultural Psychiatry (42)3 2005
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We define interculturalization as the adaptation of mental health services to suit clients from different cultures. The suggested measures aim to introduce changes in four contexts: (i) the clinical interface or the relations between the immigrant patient and the healthcare workers and the treatment...
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PMID: 16268237
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Transcultural Psychiatry (42)3 2005
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This article is a description of how cross-cultural services in mental health have evolved in Vancouver. With 49% of Vancouver's total population described as a 'visible minority' by Statistics Canada, it has been essential for the city, in its efforts to provide health care that is accessible, avai...
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PMID: 16268239
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Research findings that depressed Americans endorse more negative self-related adjectives than controls may be related to a shared self-enhancement cultural frame. This study examines the relationship between negative core self-descriptors and depressive symptoms in 79 Japanese and 50 American women....
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PMID: 15902678
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Sante mentale au Quebec (30)2 2005
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This article analyses a clinical intervention that was carried out at the ethnopsychiatric unit of the Jean-Talon hospital in Montreal. The authors first present an overview of the central concepts of an ethnopsychiatric approach elaborated in France by Nathan in response to mental health problems e...
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PMID: 16505933
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This study of 14 international feature-length films (1988- 2003) is aimed at providing gerontologists with models of successful aging that portray elders as being valued within the context of community. Elders serve as role models and mentors for the young, and they resolve mid-life crises for the m...
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PMID: 16260400
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I describe an effective approach I have used to integrate various religious beliefs and practices into an undergraduate course on death and dying. Before presenting my approach, I provide a brief description of the state of death education in professional and undergraduate institutions in America an...
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PMID: 16260399
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Teaching cross-cultural aging: using literary portrayals of elders from Chile and the United States.
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I discuss ways of teaching cross-cultural aging in undergraduate literature courses, using Chilean texts paired with American texts. Students learn how old age is socially constructed and how writers can either reinforce or challenge negative societal stereotypes of elders. Chilean texts reveal Chil...
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PMID: 16260401
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We discuss how gerontology education has evolved in Japan over the past 40 years. Specifically, we provide an overview of the development of academic societies related to gerontology, the number of gerontological books published, government statements about gerontology education, and Japan's only gr...
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PMID: 16260402
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Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere ()686 Pt1 2004
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There is a clear need for more mental health workers from ethnic backgrounds, especially appropriately trained psychiatrists, and for upgrading the mental health service capacity of frontline agencies through training and core funding. Active community education programs are necessary to counter sti...
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PMID: 15101502
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The ABNF journal : official journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty in Higher Education, Inc (15)1 2004
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This manuscript discusses historical and contemporary cultural views of the female breast. It also considers implications of these views for female health and for use of this information by health educators.
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PMID: 15067793
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For the past 28 years, members of the Transcultural Nursing Society have been pioneers in generating knowledge about transcultural health issues, and this important body of knowledge will continue to increase and influence nursing research and practice worldwide. Yet at the same time, worldwide chan...
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PMID: 14768410
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By 2030, ethnic minority elders are expected to increase by 12%. Research about this highly diverse population is gaining momentum. This chapter summarizes selected research articles published after 1996 on access and utilization of services and resources by African American and Asian American elder...
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PMID: 15368772
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Soins. Psychiatrie ()230 2004
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We chose to conduct these studies among the Vezo of Madagascar because the ethnographic literature has attributed to them folkbiological and folksociological theories that are radically different, even in commensurable, with those of North American adults. Vezo therefore provide a challenging test f...
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PMID: 15566544
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Journal of Social Psychology (143)6 2003
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The author assessed preschool-aged children's attitudes (N = 70) toward their own and 2 ethnic or racial out-groups using traditional forced-choice measures and a new method that assessed children's out-group attitudes independently of their attitudes toward their own group. When required to assign...
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PMID: 14658745
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Journal of Social Psychology (143)6 2003
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The authors randomly assigned 69 undergraduates to 1 of 2 perceptual priming conditions involving 80-ms flash words presented on a computer screen to activate information processing outside of conscious awareness. In the high-prime condition, the authors exposed participants to stereotype words asso...
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PMID: 14658746
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Journal of Social Psychology (143)6 2003
The process of coping among ethnic minority first-generation college freshmen: a narrative approach.
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Using a narrative approach, the authors explored the process of coping among ethnic minority college students. Participants were 30 freshmen, predominantly the 1st members of their families to attend college, who wrote journals once a week for 3 weeks on their ways of coping with stress. They also c...
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PMID: 14658747
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There is a need to clarify the domain of music as an object of cognitive and neuroscientific research. This paper explores some ramifications of an inclusive delineation of the domain of music for such research.
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PMID: 14681122
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In The Wholeness of Nature (1996), Henri Bortoft shows how a Goethean science of qualitative wholeness complements the analytic and causal- explanatory framework that underlies most research in the natural and social sciences. Goethe's insights and methods suggest that a better understanding of Indi...
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PMID: 12876436
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Psychopathology (36)3 2003
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Despite the limitations of modern nosological systems the development of cultural adaptations is a step backward, leading to unavoidable pitfalls in spite of the fact that cultural diversity is imposing new attitudes and demands on psychiatrists. Cultural adaptations challenge the principles of the...
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PMID: 12845281
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Das Gesundheitswesen (64)12 2002
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The 4th conference of transcultural medical appraisal was organized once again by the ethno-medical center in Hannover on 2nd and 3rd of November, 2001. For the first time, medical estimators and decision-makers from the spheres of medicine, psychology, law and administration got together thematical...
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PMID: 12516015
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We examine the dynamics of pro-natalist fertility policy in Croatia and Serbia. We do so with a view to explaining why, despite similarities, the two have followed divergent paths. While reproductive rights violations have occurred in both nations, they have been markedly higher in Serbia than Croat...
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PMID: 11848279
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Soins. Psychiatrie ()223 2002
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Soins. Psychiatrie ()223 2002
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Soins. Psychiatrie ()223 2002
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Soins. Psychiatrie ()223 2002
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Demography (38)4 2001
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I show that differences in postpartum sexual abstinence are closely associated with community-specific rationales for the practice, particularly differences in the definition and timing of child-strengthening rituals that couples are required to perform before resuming intercourse. Contrary to conve...
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PMID: 11723945
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The cognitive anthropological method of deriving cultural models from ethnographic discourse analysis is illustrated in relation to case studies yielding nativistic insights regarding American Indian substance dependency and recovery. Discussion focuses on the broader applicability and local communi...
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PMID: 11484152
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Romantisme (31)114 2001
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American Psychologist (55)11 2000
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This article chronicles one individual's personal odyssey toward becoming an international psychologist--and hopefully a citizen of a professional world that has no geographic borders. It is written as a narrative that is divided into chronological stages and several domains of professional activiti...
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PMID: 11280945
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The anthropological study of kirikirimasien (epilepsy) in Mali constitutes an integral part of a research programme devoted to the epidemiology of epilepsy and onchocerciasis in Mali. This programme is run jointly by scientists of the Ecole Nationale de Médecine et de Pharmacie (National School of...
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PMID: 11204723
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Aboriginal people are the receivers of services and programs that will be delivered, in the majority of cases, by university-educated, non-Aboriginal, professional health care providers. Indigenous students face specific challenges in obtaining an effective education for working in the Aboriginal an...
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PMID: 10790945
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Ugeskrift for laeger (162)6 2000
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While there appears to be general consensus in the behavioral sciences as to the importance of culture and ethnicity in shaping behavior, the discipline of psychology, a major producer of psychotherapists, is often resistant to the study of the basic concepts; seeing it as the domain of other discip...
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PMID: 11855257
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