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California Southeast Asian Mental Health Needs Assessment
Author | : Elizabeth Gong-Guy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Asian Americans |
ISBN | : |
Includes statistics.
Psychology in Southeast Asia
Author | : Grant J. Rich |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-04-16 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1000065243 |
Despite diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity, there has been a paucity of research on psychology in Southeast Asia. This book aims to fill that gap, with a series of well-written theoretical and empirical chapters by PhD psychologists in SE Asia along with respected international colleagues and co-authors from around the globe. In particular this book focuses upon critical sociocultural, clinical, and health issues and perspectives in psychology in Southeast Asia. Overviews help contextualize the cultural data, permitting nuanced examination of significant psychological issues in nations such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and more. Psychologists and mental health professionals with interests in Asia will find this book to be a must-read, as will other readers seeking to deepen their cultural and international understanding.
The Movement for Global Mental Health
Author | : Claudia Lang |
Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9048550130 |
In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.
Beyond the Asylum
Author | : Claire E. Edington |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 150173394X |
Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.
Cultural Considerations in Asian and Pacific Islander American Mental Health
Author | : Harvette Grey |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0190243376 |
Cultural Considerations in Asian and Pacific Islander American Mental Health offers a broad array of perspectives from clinicians and researchers actively working with racially/ethnically diverse populations. This book addresses psychosocial cultural issues that impact the mental health of the growing Asian American population.
International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes
Author | : John P. Wilson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 997 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1461528208 |
Over 100 researchers from 16 countries contribute to the first comprehensive handbook on post-traumatic stress disorder. Eight major sections present information on assessment, measurement, and research protocols for trauma related to war veterans, victims of torture, children, and the aged. Clinicians and researchers will find it an indispensible reference, touching on such disciplines and psychiatry, psychology, social work, counseling, sociology, neurophysiology, and political science.