Chinese societies and mental health
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Chinese societies and mental health
Oxford University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-374) and index
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Description
The 24 essays collected in this volume present the latest research on a range of mental disorders found in Chinese communities in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and abroad.The authors, most but not all of Chinese decent, investigate culture and mental health by focusing on a specific cultural group-the Chinese. Realizing that there is diversity within Chinese culture itself, they utilize that culture as an axis from which to explore various dimensions of mental health at individual, family, and community levels. Various mental health problems are examined, with particular emphasis on neuroses and other specific mental disorders. The frequency and distributionof disorders within communities is reviewed, and the treatment and care of mental health is dealt with from a cultural perspective.Topics covered include; the relationship of cultural tradition to stress management in Hong Kong; the behaviour problems of schoolchildren in Beijing; the psychological impact on families reunited across the Taiwan Strait; strategies for family therapy in Chinese families; and many more.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of behavioural and social sciences, culture, and mental health; to clinicians and mental health workers, particularly cultural psychiatrists; and to any persons interested in the study of the Chinese.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Milton Miller
- Preface
- Contributors
- Part I: Chinese Culture, Orientation, and Coping
- 1. Chinese societies and mental health
- 2. Chinese social orientation: An integrative analysis
- 3. Cultural tradition and stress management in modern society: Learning from the Hong Kong experience
- Part II: Children and Mental Health
- 4. Behaviour problems of schoolchildren in Beijing: A study of prevalence and risk factors
- 5. Preschool behaviour disorders in Hong Kong: A cross-cultural perspective
- 6. One-child-per-couple family planning and child behaviour development: Six-year follow-up study in Nanjing
- 7. Reading success and failure in logographic writing systems: Children learning to read Chinese do evidence reading disabilities
- Part III: Family and Adjustment
- 8. Psychological impact of family reunion after long-term separation: The situation in Taiwan and mainland China
- 9. Migration and transethnic family adjustment: Experiences of Japanese War orphans and their Chinese spouses in Japan
- Part IV: Culture, Stress, and Symptom Manifestation
- 10. Remembering the cultural revolution: Alienating pains and the pain of alienation/transformation
- 11. Facts and myths about somatization among the Chinese
- 12. Neuroses in Taiwan: Findings from a community survey
- Part V: Culture and Psychopathology
- 13. Alcoholism in Taiwan: The Chinese and Aborigines
- 14. Eating disorders in Hong Kong
- 15. Suicidal behaviour observed in Taiwan: Trends over four decades
- 16. Sexual beliefs and problems in contemporary Taiwan
- 17. Koro epidemic in Southern China
- Part IV: Frequency of Mental Disorder
- 18. Mental disorders in Taiwan: Epidemiological studies of community population
- 19. Mental disorders in Singapore
- Part VII: Therapy and Mental Health Care
- 20. Psychotherapy for the Chinese: Cultural considerations
- 21. Family therapy for the Chinese: Problems and strategies
- 22. Psychopharmacology for the Chinese: Cross-ethnic perspectives
- 23. Development of mental health systems and care in China: From the 1940s to the 1980s
- 24. Integration of major findings
- Glossary
- References
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