Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry write by Anna M. Georgiopoulos. This book was released on 2005. Perspectives in Cross-cultural Psychiatry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents cutting-edge work in cross-cultural psychiatry by an international group of clinicians, researchers, and leaders in mental health policy. The book grew out of a recent lecture series at the Massachusetts General Hospital and features contributions from diverse fields including psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, social work, social medicine, and public policy. The first section highlights the implications of biological and cultural diversity for psychiatric diagnosis and treatment. Subsequent sections focus on psychotherapy in cross-cultural contexts and international mental health policy. Chapters examine a variety of patient populations, including Asian, African, and Hispanic Americans and populations in Europe and developing countries.
Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology
Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology write by Pittu D Laungani. This book was released on 2007-01-19. Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Few psychology books capture the reader through their table of contents like this one. The book contrasts dominant ideas from Eastern and Western psychology and, in doing so, challenges one's own assumptions ... perhaps the book's greatest strength is the holistic focus on life as a lived experience, which also makes it fun to read."--The Psychologist.
Disparities in Psychiatric Care
Disparities in Psychiatric Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disparities in Psychiatric Care write by Pedro Ruiz. This book was released on 2012-02-03. Disparities in Psychiatric Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers evidence-based clinical approaches for understanding disparities in the provision of mental-health services in the U.S. and other industrialized nations. Chapters address the availability and barriers to care among various ethnic populations and the roles of their cultures, languages, and religions as they affect diagnostic and treatment approaches. Issues related to special populations such as migrants, refugees, incarcerated individuals, and the homeless are discussed. The book also addresses issues related to gender, sexual orientation, and age. Brief sections on training, education, and policy will lay the foundation for assessing evidence-based approaches and outcomes in these diverse populations.
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Cross-Cultural Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cross-Cultural Psychology write by Kenneth D. Keith. This book was released on 2011-07-12. Cross-Cultural Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications. • Includes contributions from an experienced, international team of researchers and teachers • Brings together new perspectives and research findings with established psychological principles • Organized around key issues of contemporary cross-cultural psychology, including ethnocentrism, diversity, gender and sexuality and their role in research methods • Argues for the importance of culture as an integral component in the teaching of psychology
Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context
Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context write by Valery I. Chirkov. This book was released on 2010-12-02. Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination theory, an integrated theory of human motivation and healthy development which has been under development for more than three decades (Deci & Ryan, 2000). As the contributions will make clear, psychological autonomy is a concept that forms the bridge between the dependence of human behavior on biological and socio-cultural determinants on the one side, and people’s ability to be free, reflective, and transforming agents who can challenge these dependencies, on the other. The authors within this volume share a vision that human autonomy is a fundamental pre-condition for both individuals and groups to thrive, and that without understanding the nature and mechanisms of autonomous agency vital social and human problems cannot be satisfactory addressed. This multidisciplinary team of researchers will collectively explore the nature of personal autonomy, considering its developmental origins, its expression within relationships, its importance within groups and organizational functioning, and its role in promoting to the democratic and economic development of societies. The book is aimed toward developmental, social, personality, and cross-cultural psychologists, towards researchers and practitioners’ in the areas of education, health and medicine, social work and, economics, and also towards all interested in creating a more sustainable and just world society through promoting individual freedom and agency. This volume will provide a theoretical and conceptual account of the nature and psychological mechanisms of personal motivational autonomy and human agency; rich multidisciplinary empirical evidence supporting the claims and propositions about the nature of human autonomy and capacities for self-regulation; explanations of how and why different psychological and socio-cultural conditions may play a role in promoting or undermining people’s autonomous motivation and well-being, discussions of how the promotion of human autonomy can positively influence environmental protection, democracy promotion and economic prosperity.
