Discuss the role of culture in the treatment of disorders

Abnormal Psychology (Intro)

• The study of psychological disorders in order to give diagnosis and treatment.

GAD (Intro)

Worrying constantly to the point that it affects your daily life

Cultural beliefs impact (intro)

• plays a significant role in treatment

• significant role in success of therapy

• influence therapy process, patients understanding and definitions of trying to solve it, creating different therapy processes such as Indigenous & cross-cultural therapy.

• important to consider emic perspective which is more beneficial in a global society rather than having an etic perspective

emic perspective (intro)

believes that many factors has a role when diagnosing and treating a patient, especially in regard to their culture (cultural values, morals, and lifestyle)

etic perspective (intro)

believes that disorders & the behaviors that come along with them occur the same way in every society and can be treated & diagnosed in the same manner.

Psychotherapy (intro)

• Face to face interactions with a therapist

Cross-cultural psychotherapy

• therapist is from a different culture than the patient

Indigenous psychotherapy:

therapy within one culture, excluding anyone from the outside culture

2 studies

Ando et al, Dein and Sembhi (2001)