Book Review: Transcultural Psychiatry: Clinical Methods in Transcultural Psychiatry
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Transcultural Psychiatry for Clinical Practice
During the last decades, along with advances in the understanding and treatment of mental illness, transcultural psychiatry has undergone a conceptual reformulation. The purpose of this review is to scan some of transcultural psychiatry's contributions to the epidemiology and clinical facts of mental disorders. I will also outline some of the main theoretical constructs of the discipline. Final...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0706-7437,1497-0015
DOI: 10.1177/070674379904400211