Cultural formulation : a reader for psychiatric diagnosis / edited by Juan E. Mezzich and Giovanni Caracci.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mezzich, Juan E.

Caracci, Giovanni, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

Cultural psychiatry.

Mental illness--Diagnosis--Social aspects.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--Classification--Social aspects.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders--Evaluation.

Mental Disorders--diagnosis.

Mental Disorders--ethnology.

Cultural Diversity.

Mental Disorders--classification.

Evaluation.

Mental illness--Diagnosis.

Medical Subjects:

Mental Disorders--diagnosis.

Mental Disorders--ethnology.

Cultural Diversity.

Mental Disorders--classification.

Physical Description:

xii, 288 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Jason Aronson, [2008]

Summary:

The publication of the Cultural Formulation Outline in the DSM-IV represented a significant event in the history of standard diagnostic systems. It was the first systematic attempt at placing cultural and contextual factors as an integral component of the diagnostic process. The year was 1994 and its coming was ripe since the multicultural explosion due to migration, refugees, and globalization on the ethnic composition of the U.S. population made it compelling to strive for culturally attuned psychiatric care.

Understanding the limitations of a dry symptomatological approach in helping clinicians grasp the intricacies of the experience, presentation, and course of mental illness, the NIMH Group on Culture and Diagnosis proposed to appraise, in close collaboration with the patient, the cultural framework of the patient's identity, illness experience, contextual factors, and clinician-patient relationship, and to narrate this along the lines of five major domains. By articulating the patient's experience and the standard symptomatological description of a case, the clinician may be better able to arrive at a more useful understanding of the case for clinical care purposes. Furthermore, attending to the context of the illness and the person of the patient may additionally enhance understanding of the case and enrich the database from which effective treatment can be planned.

This reader is a rich collection of chapters relevant to the DSM-IV Cultural Formulation that covers the Cultural Formulation's historical and conceptual background, development, and characteristics. In addition, the reader discusses the prospects of the Cultural Formulation and provides clinical case illustrations of its utility in diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.

Contents:

Psychiatric diagnosis: a cultural perspective / Horacio Fabrega, Jr.

The cultural context of diagnosis and therapy: a view from medial anthropology / Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good

Help-seeking pathways: a unifying concept in mental health care / Lloyd H. Roger and Dharma E. Cortes

On illness meanings and clinical interpretation: not "rational man," but a rational approach to man the sufferer/man the healer / Arthur Kleinman

On culturally enhancing the DSM-IV multiaxial formulation / Juan E. Mezzich and Byron J. Good

Cultural comments on multiaxial issues / Peter J. Guarnaccia

Cultural formulation: development and critical review / Juan E. Mezzich

Cultural formulation of psychiatric diagnosis / Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Cultural formulation and comprehensive diagnosis: clinical and research perspectives / Juan E. Mezzich

Issues in the assessment and diagnosis of culturally diverse individuals / Francis G. Lu, Russell F. Lim, and Juan E. Mezzich

Framing research on culture in psychiatric diagnosis: the case of DSM-IV / Lloyd H. Rogler

The place of culture in DSM-IV / Juan E. Mezzich .. [et al.]

Using the DSM-IV cultural formulation to enhance psychodynamic understanding / Giovanni Caracci

Introducing the cultural formulation to mental health care in Stockholm, Sweden / Sofie Bäärnhielm

The cultural interview in the Netherlands: the cultural formulation in your pocket / Hans Rohlof

Psychosis following qi-gong in a Chinese immigrant / Russell F. Lim and Keh-Ming Lin

Diagnosis and treatment of Nervios and Ataques in a female Puerto Rican migrant / Roberto Lewis-Fernández

Treatment of an Indian woman with major depression by a Latina therapist: a cultural formulation / Maria A. Oquendo and Ruth Graver

Depression and back pain in a young male Turkish immigrant in Basel, Switzerland: a cultural formulation / A. Tarik Yilmaz and Mitchell G. Weiss

Sakit jiwa, Ng(amuk), and schizoaffective disorder in a Javanese woman: a cultural formulation / Kevin O. Browne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780765704894

0765704897

9780765706072

0765706075

OCLC:

169872852