Transcultural Psychiatry

2018 ◽  
pp. 1832-1832
Author(s):  
VK Verma
Keyword(s):  
Transcultural Psychiatry

Evolutionary Social Science and Transcultural Psychiatry

1994 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Paris
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Parental Investment ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Biopsychosocial Model ◽  
Transcultural Psychiatry ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Cultural Variations ◽  
Human Social Behaviour

Evolutionary principles can explain many aspects of human social behaviour. Despite important contro versies concerning the theory of sociobiology, evol utionary models offer cogent explanations for social phenomena such as altruism and parental investment. Evolutionary social science also has an important relevance for transcultural psychiatry, in that it is consistent with a biopsychosocial model for the etiology of psychiatric disorders, and points to the universals which underlie cultural variations in psychopathology.

Transcultural Psychiatry

2012 ◽  
pp. 1434-1435
Author(s):  
Kristin L. Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Transcultural Psychiatry

Transcultural psychiatry

2002 ◽  
Vol 181 (6) ◽  
pp. 535-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dein
Keyword(s):  
Transcultural Psychiatry

EV466Characterization of the refugee population in a psychiatry clinic in Lisbon

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S402-S402
Author(s):  
H. Prata-Ribeiro ◽  
A. Bento ◽  
A. Ponte ◽  
B. Costa Neves ◽  
L. Gil
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Adjustment Disorder ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Transcultural Psychiatry ◽  
Refugee Population ◽  
Extreme Stress ◽  
The Past ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Refugee Men

AbstractThe refugee population has been a growing concern to the developed countries in general and to Europe in particular. The recent mass migrations are changing the population that is getting to the psychiatric hospitals, not only culturally but also pathologically. The aim of this study is to characterize the refugee population that contacts with the clinic of transcultural psychiatry in Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa, understanding the most frequent pathologies and nationalities. The methods used consisted in analyzing the refugee population that attended a psychotherapeutic group and consultation in the Transcultural clinic of Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa during the past year. Analyzing the population, 66 refugees were in contact with the transcultural clinic, 44 of which were men, being the other 22 women, representing a total of 23 countries. The more frequent nationality was Iranian (20) and the most frequent diagnosis was “adjustment disorder and anxiety” (38). We can reach the conclusion that more refugee men contact with our psychiatric hospital than women, accounting for 66, 6% of the total; 30, 3% of the refugees were from Iran, followed by Pakistan with 10, 6%. The fact that the most frequent diagnosis is adjustment disorder and anxiety, accounting for 57, 6% of the sample, seems to point out the extreme stress refugees undergo.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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