Cross-cultural evaluation of maternal competence in a culturally diverse society

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 165, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 565-568

  Seeman, Mary V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD CUSTODY; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 43949124147     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07111714     Document Type: Article

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