Cultural variations in the perception of psychopathology

For many years now there has been debate among psychiatrists concerning the specificity of diagnostic practices to particular cultures. The harmonisation of criteria for diagnostic practice, outside North America, has been one of the great achievements of the World Health Organization. Now, there se...

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Autor principal: Skuse, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2004
Materias:
Thematic Papers–Introduction
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6733079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507679
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spelling pubmed-67330792019-09-10 Cultural variations in the perception of psychopathology Skuse, David Int Psychiatry Thematic Papers–Introduction For many years now there has been debate among psychiatrists concerning the specificity of diagnostic practices to particular cultures. The harmonisation of criteria for diagnostic practice, outside North America, has been one of the great achievements of the World Health Organization. Now, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in how culturally bound our ideas of psychopathology are, or should be. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2004-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6733079/ /pubmed/31507679 Text en © 2004 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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