Do Hispanic patients adapt as well to a residential therapeutic community as do members of other ethnic groups?

Substance Abuse

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-80

  Cano, Deborah ^a   Dermatis, Helen ^b,c   Bunt, Gregory ^b  

^a HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CULTURAL VALUE; DEPRESSION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FOLLOW UP; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL STRESS; PARANOIA; PSYCHOSIS; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CRIME; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT CENTERS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY;

EID: 61649100322     PISSN: 08897077     EISSN: 15470164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08897070802606485     Document Type: Letter

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