Cross-cultural encounters between careproviders: Rabbis' referral letters to a psychiatric clinic in Israel

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1309-1323

  Goodman, Yehuda ^a   Witztum, Eliezer ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Jerusalem Mental Health Center Ezrath Nashim   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross cultural encounters; Haredim; Israel; Mental illness treatment; Referrals

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; MENTAL HEALTH; RELIGION;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SOCIAL ASPECT;

CLERGY; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; CORRESPONDENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; ISRAEL; JUDAISM; MENTAL DISORDERS; MYSTICISM; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0036804423     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00278-7     Document Type: Article

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