Use of the Cultural Formulation in Stockholm: A qualitative study of mental illness experience among migrants

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 283-301

  Rosso, Marco Scarpinati ^a   Bäärnhielm, Sofie ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cultural formulation; cultural psychiatry; emic perspective; qualitative study; text content analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL FORMULATION; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRATION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84859789072     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461512442344     Document Type: Article

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