Culturally sensitive depression assessment for Chinese American Immigrants: Development of a comprehensive measure and a screening scale using an item response approach

Asian American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 230-253

  Wong, Rose ^a,b   Wu, Rufina ^a   Guo, Carmen ^a   Lam, Julia K ^a   Snowden, Lonnie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

acculturation; assessment; Chinese American; Depression; immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874034249     PISSN: 19481985     EISSN: 19481993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025628     Document Type: Article

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