Developing and Testing Locally Derived Mental Health Scales: Examples from North India and Haiti

Field Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 115-130

  Weaver, Lesley Jo ^a   Kaiser, Bonnie N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural psychiatry; Haiti; India; mental health; psychological anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928473229     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X14547191     Document Type: Article

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