Cultural adaptation of the basic conversational skills module for a Chinese population

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 988-990

  Lak, Davis C C ^a   Tsang, Hector W H ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONVERSATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL STATUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHINA; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; TRANSLATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16644396888     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.9.988     Document Type: Article

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