1st Edition
Culture And Common Mental Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa
By Vickram Patel
Copyright 1998
148 Pages
by
Psychology Press
148 Pages
by
Psychology Press
145 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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The influence of culture on mental illness has been the subject of considerable academic investigation and debate in recent years. This debate has provoked concerns about the validity and reliability of older methodologies which emphasised either universal characteristics of disorders which were heavily biased towards Euro-American systems, or the culturally relativist approach which saw... Read more
Part I: Introduction. The "New" Cross-cultural Psychiatry. Common Mental Disorders (CMD). Culture and Common Mental Disorders. Assessment of Mental Disorders Across Cultures. Epidemiology of Mental Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa. Explanatory Models of Mental Illness in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Study Setting. Medical Pluralism in Zimbabwe. Part II: The Studies. Objectives. The Ethnographic Study. The Phenomenology Study. The Shona Symptom Questionnaire Study. The Case-Control Study. Part III: Results of the Studies. Concepts of Mental Illness of Primary Care Providers. Symptoms and Explanatory Models of CMD. Development of the Shona Symptom Questionnaire. Relationship Between Biomedical and Indigenous Models of Illness. Prevalence, Associations, and Risk Factors of CMD. Part IV: Discussion. Limitations of the Research Methodology. Presentation and Assessment of CMD. Relevance of Indigenous Models of Illness. Epidemiology of Common Mental Disorders. Directions for Future Research. Part V: Conclusions.
Biography
Vickram Patel
