Recognizing Cultural Identity in Mental Health Care: RethinkinG the Cultural Formulation of a Somali Patient

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 451-462

  Groen, Simon ^a  

^a Center for Transcultural Psychiatry De Evenaar

Author keywords

anthropology; asylum seekers; cultural formulation; cultural identity; ethnicity; refugees

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; RECOGNITION; REFUGEE; SOMALIA; TRUST;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ISLAM; MALE; NETHERLANDS; REFUGEES; SOCIAL VALUES; SOMALIA; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 70350705939     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461509343087     Document Type: Article

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