Cultural influences on symptoms manifested by Asian patients may mislead clinicians who
are unfamiliar with Asian culture and health beliefs Expresses problems in behavioral or …

Asians comprise more than 60% of the world's population and are the fastest growing
minority group in the United States. Today's psychiatrist must learn to recognize and …

The impact of culture and ethnicity on psychopharmacological drug response continues to
be a topic of interest and research. Diagnostic issues among patients of different races and …

Asian Americans are a diverse and rapidly growing group within the US population. The aim
of this chapter is to demonstrate how Asian Americans may understand mental health …

During the last several decades we have seen a substantial increase in interest and
research in the area of culture, race, and ethnicity among psychiatrists. Considering culture …

The interaction of culture and mental illness is the focus of the Clinical Manual of Cultural
Psychiatry, which is designed to help mental health clinicians become culturally competent …

The Asian population in the United States is the fastest growing minority; consequently it
behooves psychiatric nurses and other mental health professionals to be aware of symptom …

Background: In various cultures and religions, there are different understandings of what
Western medicine calls 'psychiatric'symptoms. Different interpretations lead to different …

Inter-individual and inter-ethnic differences in drug response have been regularly found in
clinical practice. This is not surprising given the remarkable diversity in genetic …

Sociocultural factors significantly contribute to differences in drug response. Different
cultures experience disease states in different ways and effectively may have different …