Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context: A Casebook for Mental Health Professionals

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Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context

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Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context provides mental health professionals with materials to practice the application of cross-cultural variations on standard diagnostic guidelines.Freddy A Paniagua offers clinical case examples to illustrate the cross-cultural variations applicable in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients from four major cultural groups: African Americans, American Indians, Asians and Hispanics.This companion volume to Paniagua's Assessing and Treating Diverse Clients (Second Edition, SAGE 1998) clarifies and expands the content of the previous book.

Author Biography

Paniagua is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where he teaches cross-cultural mental health seminars with an emphasis on the assessment and treatment of African American, Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian clients.

Table of Contents

Overview of Demographic Findings and Cultural Variants across African Americans, American Indians, Asian, and HispanicsCultural Variations in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersDSM-IVAssessment in a Cultural ContextTreatment in a Cultural ContextApplications of Cultural Variables with Childhood and Adolescent Psychiatric DisordersApplications of Cultural Variables with other Psychiatric Disorders in Children, Adolescents, and AdultsCross-Cultural Variations with Other Conditions That May Be the Focus of Clinical AttentionPracticing Clinical Cases

Details ISBN0761917888 Author Freddy A. Paniagua Short Title DIAGNOSIS IN A MULTICULTURAL C Pages 272 Language English ISBN-10 0761917888 ISBN-13 9780761917885 Media Book Format Hardcover Series Number 15 Year 2001 Subtitle A Casebook for Mental Health Professionals Imprint SAGE Publications Inc Place of Publication Thousand Oaks Country of Publication United States Residence Galveston, TX, US Affiliation US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine DOI 10.1604/9780761917885 UK Release Date 2001-01-17 NZ Release Date 2001-01-17 US Release Date 2001-01-17 Publisher SAGE Publications Inc Series Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series Publication Date 2001-01-17 Alternative 9780761917892 DEWEY 616.890089 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2001-01-16 We've got this

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