Psychology Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Transcultural Psychiatry.

Psychology Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis of Transcultural Psychiatry.
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Transcultural Psychiatry

Summary: Explanations and definitions of transcultural psychiatry, transcultural studies, and transcultural factors. Also provides typical recommendations for treatments.
Transcultural Psychiatry

Transcultural psychiatry is a relationship between culture and mental health. It is all about the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of the entire range of mental and behavioral problems in individual, families and communities of different countries.

Transcultural Studies

Studies in different societies help in making an important causal distinction. Biologically determined features of mental disorder are likely to be similar in different cultures, whilst psychologically and socially determined features are likely to be similar dissimilar, thus the "core" symptoms of schizophrenia are present in patients from widely different societies but the symptoms of the less severe forms of anxiety disorder and depressive disorders differ considerably. Just like in India, patients with anxiety disorder are especially like to complain of bodily symptoms rather than emotional symptoms. Knowledge of these variations is also important in understanding the aetiology of mental disorder in individuals...

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