Clinical manual of cultural psychiatry / edited by Russell F. Lim, M.D., M.Ed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lim, Russell F., 1961- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural psychiatry--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cultural psychiatry.

Psychiatry, Transcultural--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Psychiatry, Transcultural.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia ; London, England : American Psychiatric Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Representing the clinical state of the art in culturally competent assessment and treatment, and providing important information on African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Native Americans and Alaska Natives, this book synthesizes the collected wisdom from the editor's 10 years of teaching cultural psychiatry as a CME course with the professional experience of seven other contributors in using and teaching about DSM-IV-TR's Outline for Cultural Formulation.

Contents:

Assessment of culturally diverse individuals : introduction and foundations

Applying the DSM-5 outline for cultural formulation and the cultural formulation

Issues in the assessment and treatment of African American patients

Issues in the assessment and treatment of Asian American patients

Issues in the assessment and treatment of Latino patients

Issues in the assessment and treatment of American Indian and Alaska Native patients

Cultural issues in women's mental health

Sexual orientation : gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals

Transgender and gender nonconforming patients

Religious and spiritual assessment

Ethnopsychopharmacology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61537-837-5

1-58562-544-2

1-280-96355-7

9786610963553

1-58562-652-X

OCLC:

171563301