| Description |
1 online resource (145 pages) |
| Series |
Maudsley Series |
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Maudsley series
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Glossary of abbreviations and Shona terms; Acknowledgements; Abstract; 1. Introduction; The ""new"" cross-cultural psychiatry; Common mental disorders (CMD); Culture and common mental disorders; Assessment of mental disorders across cultures; Epidemiology of mental illness in Sub-Saharan Africa; Explanatory models of mental illness in Sub-Saharan Africa; The study setting; Medical pluralism in Zimbabwe; Summary; 2. The studies; Objectives; The Ethnographic Study; The Phenomenology Study |
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The Shona Symptom Questionnaire StudyThe Case-Control Study; 3. Results of the studies; Concepts of mental illness of primary care providers; Symptoms and explanatory models of CMD; Development of the Shona Symptom Questionnaire; Relationship between biomedical and indigenous models of illness; Prevalence, associations, and risk factors of CMD; 4. Discussion; Limitations of the research methodology; Presentation and assessment of CMD; Relevance of indigenous models of mental illness; Epidemiology of common mental disorders; Directions for future research; 5. Conclusions; References |
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Appendix 1Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Author index; Subject index |
| Summary |
The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either universal characteristics of disorders which were heavily biased towards Euro-American systems, or the culturally relativist approach which saw psychological disorders as products largely of their own culture. The ""new"" cross-cultural psychiatry proposed that the integration of ethnographic and epidemiological techniques be required to enable a cult |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317840923 |
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1317840925 |
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