Strategic culture sensitive therapy with religious Jews

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-124

  Witztum, Eliezer ^a,b,d   Buchbinder, Jacob T ^b,c,d  

^a MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b Jerusalem Mental Health Center Ezrath Nashim   (Israel)

^c TOURO COLLEGE   (United States)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; JEW; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS GROUP; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0035000199     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540260124954     Document Type: Review

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