書目名稱 | Ethnic Psychiatry | 編輯 | Charles B. Wilkinson | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/317/316236/316236.mp4 | 叢書名稱 | Critical Issues in Psychiatry | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | Today there is an overall greater awareness and acceptance of ethnic diversity in American society and a clearer definition of the United States as a pluralistic nation. The last U.S. census showed that well over 100 million Americans, white and non- white, identify with an ethnic group. Ethnicity is indicative of more than the personal distinc- tiveness derived from race, religion, national origin, or ge- ography. It denotes the culture of people-that powerful yet subtle factor that shapes values, attitudes, perceptions, needs, modes of expression, patterns of behavior, and identity. From a clinical perspective ethnicity involves conscious and uncon- scious processes that fulfill deep psychological needs for se- curity, a sense of one‘s own proper dignity, and a sense of historical continuity as well. These functional aspects of eth- nicity reinforce the notion that culture is of significant value to the quality of life and the mental health of all individuals. In the preventive and therapeutic sense, ethnicity sustains a capacity for coping with stress by providing communal support systems which serve to buffer the excessive indi- vidualism, alienation, and anomie of modem mass c | 出版日期 | Book 1986 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | coping; diagnosis; identity; psychiatry; quality of life; rehabilitation; stress; therapy | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2219-1 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4612-9302-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4613-2219-1 | copyright | Plenum Publishing Corporation 1986 |
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