Clinician-patient ethnicity in psychiatric diagnosis: A pilot study with hispanics

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 93-109

  Zayas, Luis H ^a   Cabassa, Leopoldo J ^b   Perez, M Carmela ^c   Howard, Matthew O ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural psychiatry; Diagnosis and classification; Ethnicity; Hispanics; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745794512     PISSN: 15313204     EISSN: 15313212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J051v14n01_05     Document Type: Article

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