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“farzin irani”

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  • Cultural Diversity in Neuropsychological Assessment

    Developing Understanding through Global Case Studies

    Edited by Farzin Irani ...
    Cultural Diversity in Neuropsychological Assessment provides a platform for clinical neuropsychologists, psychologists, and trainees to bridge cultures and speak to each other about the ethnically diverse communities they serve throughout the world. It allows readers to peek into their clinical filing cabinets and examine how they worked with diverse individuals from indigenous and migrant ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

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    Edited by Larry Nuttbrock ...
    This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers, including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics, encounters with ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice

    Lessons Learned from Around the Globe

    by Tzipi Weiss, Ron Berger ...
    "Posttraumatic Growth and Culturally Competent Practice: Lessons Learned from Around the Globe brings welcome attention to applying PTG to culturally competent practice worldwide. It delivers on the promise embedded in its title: lots of lessons within the fourteen chapters."-From the Foreword by Charles R. Figley, PhD, Kurzweg Chair in Disaster Mental Health, Tulane University, New OrleansThe ... Read more

    $51.00 USD

  • Adolescent Psychology Around the World

    Edited by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett ...
    This book paints a portrait of adolescent psychology in 4 major regions: Africa/the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Featuring 24 revised and updated chapters from the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2007), readers are introduced to the way the majority of the world’s adolescents actually live. Most contributors are indigenous to the country they review. As a whole the book ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide Prevention

    Edited by Danuta Wasserman ...
    Series series Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry
    Approximately 1 million people commit suicide world-wide annually and around 10 million attempt suicide each year. Suicide is a major public health problem throughout the world, and major efforts are currently being made to help reduce these numbers. However, suicide is the result of complex interactions between a range of factors, including historical, psychological, cultural, biological, and ... Read more

    $175.49 USD

  • Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

    Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Kamaldeep Bhui ...
    Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation, perpetuation and treatment of patients suffering with mental illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly being recognised, and the misconceptions that can occur as a result of cultural differences can lead to misdiagnoses, under or over-diagnosis. This second edition of the Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry has ... Read more

    $82.89 USD

  • Community Mental Health

    Putting Policy Into Practice Globally

    Edited by Graham Thornicroft, Atalay Alem, Robert E. Drake, Hiroto Ito, Jair Mari, Peter McGeorge, R. Tara, Maya Semrau ...
    Series Book 29 - World Psychiatric Association
    There are wide inconsistencies between, and even within, countries in how community-orientated care is defined and interpreted. The analysis presented in this book take as a starting point an evidence-based balanced care model in which services are provided in community settings close to the populations served, with hospital stays being reduced as far as possible, usually located in acute wards in ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology

    Science, Testing, and Challenges

    Edited by Alberto Luis Fernández, Jonathan Evans ...
    Series series Current Issues in Neuropsychology
    Understanding Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology thoroughly examines the meaning of culture in the context of neuropsychology, focusing on the fundamental neuroscience underlying how different aspects of culture influence neuropsychological test performance, and how that is related to brain function. It explores in detail the relationship between brain activity and culture, and the influence of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Multicultural Neurorehabilitation

    Clinical Principles for Rehabilitation Professionals

    by Jay M. Uomoto, PhD ...
    Designing rehabilitation programs for patients who have suffered brain injury or disease is one of the core functions of clinical neuropsychologists. Ironically, the more that neuropsychologists have learned about the functional anatomy of the brain, the more they have realized how important the variable of culture is, not only in the expression of deficits, but in implementation of treatment ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Children's Services in the Developing World

    by Najat M'Jid ...
    Series series The Library of Essays in Child Welfare and Development
    Children’s services in The Developing World brings together evidence relating to the health and development of children in the global South. It is essential reading for students, scientists, policy makers and practitioners in economically developing countries. The book deals with the effects of catastrophe, disease, war and poverty on children's development. There is strong coverage of the ways in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Violence against Women and Mental Health

    by N. Sartorius, A. Riecher-Rössler ...
    Violence against women is a global problem that includes domestic violence, sexual abuse of girls and women, trafficking of women, violence in humanitarian crisis settings, violence against female patients including abuse of doctor-patient relationships, and harassment and discrimination of women at the workplace. The mental sequelae of abused women includes posttraumatic stress syndromes, anxiety ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • Parenting Across Cultures

    Childrearing, Motherhood and Fatherhood in Non-Western Cultures

    Edited by Helaine Selin ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    There is a strong connection between culture and parenting. What is acceptable in one culture is frowned upon in another. This applies to behavior after birth, encouragement in early childhood, and regulation and freedom during adolescence. There are differences in affection and distance, harshness and repression, and acceptance and criticism. Some parents insist on obedience; others are concerned ... Read more

    $143.09 USD