Culture-Sensitive Regulation of Anger
A. Antonio González-Prendes
in Treatments for Anger in Specific Populations: Theory, Application, and Outcome
It has been suggested that cultural norms and display rules dictate culturally sanctioned forms of emotional expression in general and anger in particular. Therefore, a culture-sensitive ...
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Impact of Military Culture on the Clinician and Clinical Practice
William L. Brim
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Like members of any culture, Service members, Veterans, and their families have a right to feel understood and respected and to have their problems readily identified and addressed in an ...
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The Fate of the Transitional Object
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 5, 1955-1959
After describing transitional objects, Winnicott describes the passing of the transitional object. He discusses his theory that if the transitional object and transitional phenomena are at ...
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Culture as Behavior Change
Ian M. Evans
in How and Why People Change: Foundations of Psychological Therapy
Culture—a set of beliefs, values, worldviews, and rules of behavior—strongly determines an individual’s psychological makeup. This chapter elaborates the argument that therapeutic change ...
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Bullying as a Sociocultural Pathway to Suicide
Joyce Chu, Johnson Ma, Bruce Bongar, and Peter Goldblum
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Some research and theoretical work suggest that suicide can be a socially and culturally driven phenomenon. We present sociocultural explanations for suicidal behaviors among youth, along ...
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Integrative Psychotherapy with Culturally Diverse Clients
Jeff E. Harris, Natasha Shukla, and Allen E. Ivey
in Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration (3 edn)
When multiple cultural influences are acknowledged, all psychotherapy clients are recognized as culturally unique. Cultural assessment involves understanding the intersecting impact of ...
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IPT Across Cultures and in Resource-Poor Countries
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
This chapter covers the dissemination of IPT across cultures and in resource-poor countries such as Uganda and Ethiopia. Two important organizations are described: the World Health ...
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Module 1—Family Collectivism (Sessions 1–3)
Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad
in Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Clinician Guide
The focus on the individual, typical of mainstream U.S. therapies, is alien to other cultures and can cause discomfort that leads to ineffective treatment and early termination. The aim of ...
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Module 5—Problem-Solving (Sessions 13–15)
Amy Weisman de Mamani, Merranda McLaughlin, Olivia Altamirano, Daisy Lopez, and Salman Shaheen Ahmad
in Culturally Informed Therapy for Schizophrenia: A Family-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Approach, Clinician Guide
This chapter is designed to help clinicians teach clients an efficient, step-by-step approach for problem-solving. Family members are first taught to systematically examine their beliefs ...
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Accommodating Race and Ethnicity in Parenting Interventions
Divna M. Haslam and Anilena Mejia
in The Power of Positive Parenting: Transforming the Lives of Children, Parents, and Communities Using the Triple P System
The parenting experience can be both similar and vastly different across different cultural contexts. This chapter outlines what culture is and the impact it has on family structure and ...
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Suicide Risk Assessment with Combat Veterans—Part I: Contextual Factors
Christopher G. AhnAllen, Abby Adler, and Phillip M. Kleespies
in Handbook of Military and Veteran Suicide: Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
This chapter provides a background for understanding suicide risk assessment in combat veterans. Given that military veterans constitute a unique cultural group, the chapter provides an ...
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Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
The book covers a topic that is often overlooked in the literature: How people with serious mental illnesses (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression) come to recognize and ...
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Mental Health Promotion With Aboriginal Youth: Lessons Learned From the Uniting Our Nations Program
Claire V. Crooks and Caely Dunlop
in School Mental Health Services for Adolescents
Aboriginal youth in Canada are at disproportionate risk for a range of mental health concerns compared to their non-Aboriginal counterparts. To address this disparity, communities, ...
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Cultural Competence and Prevention Programming
Cynthia Hudley
in Youth Suicide and Bullying: Challenges and Strategies for Prevention and Intervention
Bullying, victimization, and risk for suicide are serious and interrelated problems for adolescents today. The prevalence of these mental health challenges varies by demographic variables, ...
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The practice of meditation
Michael A. West
in The Psychology of Meditation: Research and Practice
This chapter describes the practice of meditation in the contexts of different religions, in human history, across cultures, in spirituality, in mysticism, and in literature. The varieties ...
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Military Culture
Lynn K. Hall
in Military Psychologists' Desk Reference
Psychologists and other mental health professionals need a basic understanding of the culture of the military in order to best intervene and work in a therapeutic setting with military ...
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Issues in Hiring and Supervising Professional Staff and Support Personnel
Craig Pohlman
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
People are the most important assets of any organization, so hiring and supervising represent an investment in the future of a company. The success of a hire is determined largely by the ...
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Models of Private Practice: Which Practice is Best?
Jeffrey Zimmerman
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
There are many choices when embarking in private practice, and they deserve careful consideration because they are both fundamental and complex. This chapter describes models of solo ...
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Participatory Mixed Methods Research Across Cultures
Rebecca Volino Robinson, E. J. R. David, and Mara Hill
in Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods
Mixed methodology is particularly useful when researching in cross-cultural or cultural contexts, as it allows for both etic (i.e., between cultures) and emic (i.e., within a culture) ...
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Ethnographic Approaches
Urmitapa Dutta
in Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods
Critical ethnography is an approach that connects detailed cultural analysis to wider social structures and systems of power by simultaneously examining dimensions of race, class, culture, ...
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