Mental Disorders - Ethnology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

African American women's beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and preferred coping behaviors.

29 Sep 2009 We examined African American women's representations/beliefs about mental illness, preferred coping behaviors if faced with mental illness, whether perceived stigma was associated with treatment-seeking, and if so, whether it was related to beliefs ... Read more...

Mental health considerations for speech-language services with bilingual Spanish-English speakers.

24 Aug 2009 Understanding communicatively impaired minority individuals may involve going beyond strictly linguistic and communicative domains. In particular, considering the psychoemotional aspects impacting these clients may be extremely helpful for treating ... Read more...

Approach to treatment of mental illness and substance dependence in remote Indigenous communities: results of a mixed methods study.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: To develop and evaluate a culturally adapted brief intervention for Indigenous people with chronic mental illness. DESIGN: A mixed methods design in which an exploratory phase of qualitative research was followed by a nested randomised ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Ethnology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• African American women's beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and preferred coping behaviors. 29 Sep 2009
• Mental health considerations for speech-language services with bilingual Spanish-English speakers. 24 Aug 2009
• Global mental health: a failure of humanity. 20 Aug 2009
• Approach to treatment of mental illness and substance dependence in remote Indigenous communities: results of a mixed methods study. 30 Jul 2009
• Obesity treatment for urban, low-income Latinos with severe mental illness. 30 Jul 2009
• Building a caring society. 30 Jul 2009
• Race and ethnicity and rural mental health treatment. 30 Jul 2009
• Restless legs syndrome in a community sample of Korean adults: prevalence, impact on quality of life, and association with DSM-IV psychiatric disorders. 30 Jul 2009
• The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services. 19 Jul 2009
• Indigenous health part 2: the underlying causes of the health gap. 2 Jul 2009
• A prospective study of cigarette smoking initiation during college: Chinese and Korean American students. 29 Jun 2009
• Abuse, mastery, and health among lesbian, bisexual, and two-spirit American Indian and Alaska Native women. 29 Jun 2009
• Gender, family, and community correlates of mental health in South Asian Americans. 29 Jun 2009
• Factors, process and outcomes of recovery from psychiatric disability: the unity model. 29 Jun 2009
• Mental health needs of Arab women. 29 Jun 2009
• Comparing diagnostic methods for mental disorders in China. 11 Jun 2009
• Characteristics of the healthy brain project sample: representing diversity among study participants. 30 May 2009
• What do we need to know about the culture-bound syndromes? 30 May 2009
• ACT Tailored for Ethnocultural Communities of Metropolitan Toronto. 30 May 2009
• Overrepresentation of black Americans in psychiatric inpatient care. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Disorders'

Definition: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

Descriptor UI: D001523

Alternative terms: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior;

Related Mesh Headings: Mentally Ill Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03;

Online Note: pre-explosion = MENTAL DISORDERS (PX)

History Note: use pre-explosion 1974-97