It has been consistently reported that the African-Caribbean population in the UK are more
likely than their White counterparts to access psychiatric services via the police and under …

Literature from cross-cultural psychology and anthropology on cultural differences in the
concept of the self or person is reviewed. The radically different “indexical” understanding of …

The extensive discussions of the concept of the emotions that have occurred in the West for
at least the last two thousand years have generally proceeded with either philosophical …

As psychiatry has developed it has proved to be susceptible to the influence of
contemporary social and political mores. With its origins in nineteenth-century Europe …

In this study, a model of migration contingencies and acculturative stress was developed on
the basis of the acculturation model of Berry et al. and a similar model by Beiser. The study …

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PSYCHOLOGY Typically, Western psychologists are reluctant to accept endemic racism …

Currently, it is common practice among the child psychiatric establishment to prescribe
powerful and potentially addictive drugs to children who have emotional or behavioural …

Despite a growing literature of cross-cultural research on mental illness, little is known about
the universality of most psychiatric disorders. This study was designed to determine whether …

This study explores the explanatory models of major depression in a group of 40 recently
immigrated Chinese-American women, and demonstrates the significant relationship …

The transition to and acceptance of digital mental health tools has been heralded as a
paradigm shift for providing and accessing care. Yet, providers and clients express concerns …