Mental Health Attitudes among Caucasian-American and Korean Counseling Students

Community Mental Health Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-224

  Gellis, Zvi D ^a   Huh, Nam Soon ^b   Lee, Shinyoung ^a   Kim, Jeehoon ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cross cultural differences; Koreans; Mental health attitudes; Whites

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; KOREA; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL WORK; STUDENT;

ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; STUDENTS;

EID: 0141782713     PISSN: 00103853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023338206414     Document Type: Article

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