Hmong Mental Health Needs Assessment: A Community-Based Partnership in a Small Mid-Western Community

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 73-86

  Collier, Ann Futterman ^a   Munger, Martha ^b   Moua, Yong Kay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^b Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Hmong; Immigrants; Mental health; Mental health literacy; Under served populations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84856639688     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-011-9436-z     Document Type: Article

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