Use of indigenous cultural idioms by chinese immigrant relatives for psychosis: Impacts on stigma and psychoeducational approaches

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 872-878

  Yang, Lawrence H ^a   Singla, Daisy R ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chinese; explanatory models; indigenous labeling; schizophrenia; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; PSYCHOEDUCATION; PSYCHOSIS; RELATIVE; STIGMA; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

ADULT; CHINA; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 80455124064     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182349eb7     Document Type: Article

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