Introduction: Conversion disorder is easily one of the least understood neuropsychiatric disorders. There is a great deal of ambiguity with respect to symptom presentation, assessment, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment.
Sheetal Lakhani +2 more
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Using the Cultural Formulation Interview to Build Culturally Sensitive Services [PDF]
As part of the development of DSM-5, the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) was administered to 30 monolingual Spanish-speaking adults at one site of a 2012 feasibility study of the CFI. The authors identified salient themes in data collected through use of the CFI, with a focus on interventions that could lead to more culturally responsive mental ...
Esperanza, Díaz +4 more
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The Cultural Formulation Interview: Progress to date and future directions [PDF]
The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) developed for DSM-5 provides a way to collect information on patients’ illness experience, social and cultural context, help-seeking, and treatment expectations relevant to psychiatric diagnosis and assessment. This thematic issue of Transcultural Psychiatry brings together articles examining the implementation
Roberto, Lewis-Fernández +2 more
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Challenges in treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in refugees: towards integration of evidence-based treatments with contextual and culture-sensitive perspectives [PDF]
Background: Research shows that trauma-focused therapy and multimodal interventions are the two most often used strategies in treatment of refugees suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Boris Drožđek
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When it relates to national identity, the issue of identity becomes relevant in the era of globalization. Considering the distance between local, national, and global identities and the variables involved is crucial.
Drajat Tri Kartono +3 more
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Developing vocational practice in the jewellery sector through the incubation of a new “project-object” [PDF]
This paper analyses a work placement scheme established to create the conditions to: (i) incubate new designs in the jewellery sector in Birmingham; (ii) support a jewellery company compete more effectively in the global market; (iii) assist a newly ...
Guile, David, Okumoto, Kaori
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Psychologists’ Diagnostic Processes during a Diagnostic Interview [PDF]
In mental health care, psychologists assess clients’ complaints, analyze underlying problems, and identify causes for these problems, to make treatment decisions. We present a study on psychologists’ diagnostic processes, in which a mixed-method approach
Beerthuis, Vos R.J. +5 more
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Adaptive reused heritage building based on sustainable architecture
Selective reuse of heritage buildings should be based on consideration of strategic issues of sustainable development. Research that discusses the reuse of cultural heritage buildings in the field of architecture still does not implement the concept of ...
Bambang Triratma +3 more
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The politics of tourism development: a case of dual governance in Tobago [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of the role that tourism policy plays in influencing tourism development. The research is based on two questions: How does tourism policy influence tourism development in the small twin ...
Airey, D., McLeod, Michelle Theresa
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National in form, Putinist in content: minority institutions ‘outside politics’ [PDF]
Over the past three decades, Russia has developed a set of institutions for the management of ethno-linguistic diversity based on the principle of ‘national cultural autonomy’.
Prina, Federica
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