This article reviews cultural variations in the clinical presentation of depression and anxiety.
Culture-specific symptoms may lead to underrecognition or misidentification of …

Background Burgeoning global mental health endeavors have renewed debates about
cultural applicability of psychiatric categories. This study's goal is to review strengths and …

This chapter introduces readers to a basic model and framework with which to understand
how human cultures influence, and are influenced by, psychological processes and …

Physicians recognize the importance of patients' emotions in healing yet believe their own
emotional responses represent lapses in objectivity. Patients complain that physicians are …

This paper considers two pertinent strands in the contemporary immigrant mental health
literature: 1) the distinction made between stressors that are endemic to most immigrant …

We review cultural psychopathology research since important review with the goals of
updating past reviews, evaluating current conceptualizations and methods, and identifying …

Background: The anxiety disorders specified in the fourth edition, text revision, of The
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR) are identified universally in human societies …

Most of what we have learned about the personal costs of wartime trauma comes from
veterans' experiences in post-Vietnam America. Things are different now. The wars in Iraq …

Background: There is little consensus on the extent to which psychiatric disorders or
syndromes are universal or the extent to which they differ on their core definitions and …

Rates of suicide attempts among adolescent Latinas have been reported to be higher than
for their non‐Hispanic counterparts. Yet researchers know very little about the attempts, their …