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Asian American Mental Health is a state-of-the-art compendium of the conceptual issues, empirical literature, methodological approaches, and practice guidelines for conducting culturally informed assessments of Asian Americans, and for assessing provider cultural competency within individuals and sy...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kurasaki, Karen S. (Editor), Okazaki, Sumie (Editor), Sue, Stanley (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2002.
Series:International and cultural psychology series.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Mental health.
Asian Americans > Mental health services.
Asian Americans > psychology > United States.
Mental Health > United States.
Mental Disorders > ethnology > United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the rates and distribution of mental disorders / Doris F. Chang
  • Examining the usefulness of DSM-IV / Richard H. Dana
  • Toward a new paradigm : a cultural systems approach / Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Rita Chi-Ying Chung
  • Challenging the myth of a culture free nosological system / Keh-Ming Lin, Margaret Lin
  • Assessing acculturation and cultural variables / Gargi Roysircar, Michael Lynch Maestas
  • Models of cultural orientation : differences between American-born and overseas-born Asians / Jeanne L. Tsai, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton
  • Cultural variations in self-construal as a mediator of distress and well-being / Sumie Okazaki
  • The use of culturally-based variables in assessment : studies on loss of face / Nolan Zane, May Yeh
  • Universal and indigenous dimensions of Chinese personality / Fanny M. Cheung
  • Interpreting cultural variations in cognitive profiles / Lisa A. Suzuki, Tamiko Mogami, Ellen S. Kim
  • The conception of depression in Chinese Americans / Yu-Wen Ying
  • Assessing Asian and Asian American parenting : a review of the literature / Su YeongKim, Vivian Y. Wong
  • Assessing psychiatric prevalence rates among Asian Americans / Karen S. Kurasaki, Alan K. Koike
  • The place of ethnographic understanding in the assessment of Asian American mental health / Edwina S. Uehara, Nancy Farwell, Greg Yamashiro, Michael Smukler
  • The clinical assessment of Asian American children / May Yeh, Joyce Wu Yeh
  • Examining the role of culture in educational assessment / Jonathan Sandoval
  • A cultural accommodation approach to career assessment with Asian Americans / Frederick T.L. Leong, Mei Tang
  • Theory and method of multicultural counseling competency Assessment / Richard M. Lee, Adam J. Darnell
  • Assessment of cultural competence in mental health systems of care for Asian Americans / Jean Lau Chin
  • Advances in the scientific study of Asian Americans / Stanley Sue.