| Description |
xxvi, 405 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
International and cultural psychology series |
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International and cultural psychology series.
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| Contents |
1. The lens of culture : theoretical and conceptual perspectives in the assessment of psychological trauma and PTSD / John P. Wilson -- 2. Cultural-ecological perspectives on the understanding and assessment of trauma / Lisa Tsoi Hoshmand -- 3. Ethnomedical best practices for international psychosocial efforts in disaster and trauma / Siddharth Ashvin Shah -- 4. Assessing trauma across cultures from a multigenerational perspective / Yael Danieli -- 5. Refugee assessment practices and cultural competency training / Richard H. Dana -- 6. Wrestling with the ghosts from the past in exile : assessing trauma in asylum seekers / Boris Drozdek and John P. Wilson -- 7. Assessment of PTSD and psychiatric comorbidity in contemporary Chinese societies / Catherine So-kum Tang -- 8. Culture and the assessment of trauma in youths / Kathleen Nader -- 9. The peritraumatic dissociative experiences questionnaire : an international perspective / Charles R. Mannar, Thomas J. Metzler, Christian Otte, Shannon McCaslin, Sabra Inslicht and Clare Henn Haase -- 10. The impact of event scale : revised / Daniel S. Weiss -- 11. Posttraumatic stress in asylum seekers from Chechnya, Afghanistan, and West Africa : differential findings obtained by quantitative and qualitative methods in three Austrian samples / Walter Renner, Ingrid Salem and Klaus Ottomeyer -- 12. The cross-cultural assessment of dissociation / Roberto Lewis-Fernandez, Alfonso Martinez-Taboas, Vedat Sar, Sapana Patel and Adeline Boatin -- 13. Mass psychological trauma and PTSD : epidemic or cultural illusion? / Derrick Silove, Zachary Steel and Adrian Bauman -- 14. Assessment of trauma for aboriginal people / Beverley Raphael, Pat Delaney and Daniel Bonner -- 15. Combined psychosocial and pharmacological treatment of traumatized refugees / J. David Kinzie -- 16. Western psychiatry and difficulty : understanding and treating hmong refugees / Joseph Westermeyer and Cheng Her |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Neuropsychological tests.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Diagnosis.
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Psychodiagnostics.
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| Author |
Tang, Catherine
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Wilson, John P. (John Preston)
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| LC no. |
2007928829 |
| ISBN |
(-0-387-70990-1) |
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0387709894 (Hbk) |
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9780387709895 |
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