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Cultural aspects of schizophrenia
International Review of Psychiatry, 2012Over the past 50 years, schizophrenia as a disorder has been widely studied across cultures throughout the world. There are differences not only in the symptoms and presentation but also in outcome and prognosis. Various authors have tried to explore and explain such variation but the reasons for this are not always clear. In this paper, we review some
Kalra, Gurvinder +2 more
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Cultural Aspects of Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 1974This paper deals with the relevance of cultural factors to the application of psychotherapy. It is divided into two parts: cultural psychotherapy and crosscultural psychotherapy. Cultural psychotherapy. Despite certain universal features, marked differences as regards intensity, quality and depth, exist in the forms of psychotherapy practised ...
E D, Wittkower, H, Warnes
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Cultural Aspects of Disability
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 2000This article describes cultural and social issues related to disability based on the authors’ experiences as researchers, clinicians, activists, and personal experience. They address the complexity of the topic of disability subculture by arguing that there is not one disability subculture and then describe common themes that characterize the social ...
J G, Lipson, J G, Rogers
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Cultural Aspects of Nondisclosure
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 1994A basic assumption in current western medicine is that good healthcare involves informed choices. Indeed, making informed choices is not only viewed as “good practice” but a right to which each individual is entitled, a perspective only recently developed in the medical field.Moreover, in the case of ethical decisions, much of the discussion on the ...
C J, Orona, B A, Koenig, A J, Davis
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Cultural aspects of telepsychiatry
Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 2006Telepsychiatry may involve working with clinicians, patients and systems of care that are both geographically and culturally distinct. In this context, culturally appropriate care is an important component of telepsychiatry. The outline for cultural formulation from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) provides general ...
Jay H, Shore +3 more
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Cultural Aspects of Tobacco Use
Dental Update, 2008Tobacco is used worldwide, but culture shapes the specific methods and patterns of its use, with implications for uptake, continuation and cessation. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the range of tobacco use which occurs worldwide, in the context of cultural and social norms.
Shahid, Anwar, Sonia A, Williams
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Cultural Aspects of Psychosis in the Elderly
Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 2003The elderly population is rapidly growing and increasing in diversity. Furthermore, mental disorders are common in this population. Elderly patients are at increased risk for developing psychotic symptoms. Consequently, clinicians must increase their awareness of culture and its effect on psychosis in the elderly.
Warachal Eileen, Faison, Dena, Armstrong
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Cultural Aspects of Pain Management
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2004715 STUDIES HAVE SHOWN that patients from ethnic minorities and cultures different from the health care professionals treating them, receive inadequate pain management. Each of us has the impression that people from distinct cultures are more or less likely to express their pain experience in a manner that is somewhere between quietly enduring (stoic ...
David E, Weissman +2 more
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Cultural Aspects of Tropical Medicine
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1954When I received the kind invitation to address this group on the cultural aspects of tropical medicine, I looked in my dictionary to see whether my own not too well defined ideas about culture were in accordance with the official views on the subject. I found that culture meant civilization.
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Nutritional and Cultural Aspects of the Mediterranean Diet
International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research, 2012The recent recognition by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) of the Mediterranean diet as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity reinforces, together with the scientific evidence, the Mediterranean diet as a cultural and health model. The Mediterranean diet has numerous beneficial effects on among others the
Serra-Majem, Lluis +2 more
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