Culture and Mental Health Sociocultural

Culture and Mental Health takes a critical look at the research pertaining to common psychological disorders, examining how mental health can be studied from and vary according to different cultural perspectives. Introduces students to the main topics and issues in the area of mental health using culture as the focus Emphasizes issues that pertain to conceptualization, perception, health-seeking behaviors, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in the context of cultural variations Reviews and actively encourages the reader to consider issues related to reliability, validity and standardization of commonly used psychological assessment instruments among different cultural groups Highlights the widely used DSM-IV-TR categorization of culture-bound syndromes

Sussie Eshun is a licensed psychologist and Professor of Psychology at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. In addition to clinical practice, she has several publications on the role of culture in suicide, depression, and stress. She has developed and taught several courses on culture, adjustment, and human development, and is a strong advocate for including empirical research on cultural diversity in the curriculum. She currently serves as Chair for the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity at her campus and has been actively involved in workshops and seminars with the Office of Diversity at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's (PASSHE) chancellor's office. She has been awarded several diversity grants for mentoring ethnic minority high school students and also for recruitment and retention of diverse faculty.

Regan A. R. Gurung is Chair of the Human Development department and Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is also Co-Director of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Teaching Scholars Program, has been a UWGB Teaching Fellow, a UW System Teaching Scholar, and is winner of the Founder's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Founder's Award for Excellence in Scholarship, as well as UW Teaching-at-its-Best, Creative Teaching, and Featured Faculty Awards. He is the author of two other books: Health Psychology: A Cultural Approach (2e, 2010) and Optimizing Teaching and Learning: Catalyzing Pedagogical Research (with Beth Schwartz), and is co-editor of two other books: Getting Culture? Best Practices for Incorporating Culture into the Curriculum (with Loreto Prieto), and Practicing our Signatures: Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind (with Nancy Chick and Aeron Haynie).

List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
General Issues in Culture and Mental Health
Introduction to Culture and Psychopathology
Culture and Mental Health Assessment
Stress and Mental Health
Managing Job Stress: Cross-Cultural Variations in Adjustment
Chronic Pain: Cultural Sensitivity to Pain
Placing the Soul Back into Psychology: Religion in the Psychotherapy Process
Psychotherapy in a Culturally Diverse World
International Perspectives on Culture and Mental Health
Cross-Cultural Issues in Specific Psychological Disorders
Culture and Mood Disorders
Culture and Anxiety Disorders
Cultural Factors in Traumatic Stress
Culture and Psychotic Disorders
Culture and Eating Disorders
Culture and Suicide
Author Index
Subject Index
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Culture and Mental Health Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice

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