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Cross-cultural psychiatric assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dinesh Bhugra  and
Kamaldeep Bhui
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Different cultures vary in their perceptions of mental illness (Karno & Edgerton, 1969), which can affect their utilisation of orthodox psychiatric facilities (Padilla et al, 1975; Sue, 1977). Mental health services may be seen by ethnic minorities as challenging the value of traditional support systems, reflecting dominant Western cultural values and harbouring implicitly racist psychological formulations. The clinician-patient interaction may become fraught with misunderstandings if the two parties come from different cultural backgrounds and bring distinct cultural expectations to the encounter.

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , March 1997 , pp. 103 - 110
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1997 

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