Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture
Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture

Author: William W. Dressler

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780791404133

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This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.

Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture
Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture

Author: William W. Dressler

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1991-01-22

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1438401531

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This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.

Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping
Handbook of Multicultural Perspectives on Stress and Coping

Author: Paul T. P. Wong

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-02-15

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 0387262385

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The only book currently available that focuses and multicultural, cross-cultural and international perspectives of stress and coping A very comprehensive resource book on the subject matter Contains many groundbreaking ideas and findings in stress and coping research Contributors are international scholars, both well-established authors as well as younger scholars with new ideas Appeals to managers, missionaries, and other professions which require working closely with people from other cultures

The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology
The Cambridge Handbook of Acculturation Psychology

Author: David L. Sam

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-08-03

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 1139458221

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In recent years the topic of acculturation has evolved from a relatively minor research area to one of the most researched subjects in the field of cross-cultural psychology. This edited handbook compiles and systemizes the current state of the art by exploring the broad international scope of acculturation. A collection of the world's leading experts in the field review the various contexts for acculturation, the central theories, the groups and individuals undergoing acculturation (immigrants, refugees, indigenous people, expatriates, students and tourists) and discuss how current knowledge can be applied to make both the process and its outcome more manageable and profitable. Building on the theoretical and methodological framework of cross-cultural psychology, the authors focus specifically on the issues that arise when people from one culture move to another culture and the reciprocal adjustments, tensions and benefits involved.

Stress, Culture, and Community
Stress, Culture, and Community

Author: S.E. Hobfoll

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-05-31

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0306484447

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This original work focuses on how stress evolves and is resolved in the interplay between persons and their social connectedness within family, tribe, and culture. Stress, Culture, and Community maintains that the primary motivation of human beings is to build, protect, and foster their resource reservoirs in order to protect the self and its social attachments. Stevan E. Hobfoll searches for the causes of psychological distress and potential methods of successful stress resistance by probing the ties that bind people in families, communities, and cultures. By focusing on the `process" rather than the `outcomes' of stress, he reshapes the stress dialogue.

Becoming Intercultural
Becoming Intercultural

Author: Young Yun Kim

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780803944886

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This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning of their adaptation process, how their internal conditions change over time, the role of their ethnic and personal backgrounds, and of the conditions of the host environment affecting the process. Addressing these and related issues, the author presents a comprehensive theory, or a "big picture,"of the cross-cultural adaptation phenomenon.

Handbook of Adult Resilience
Handbook of Adult Resilience

Author: John W. Reich

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2012-04-02

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 146250647X

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What enables people to bounce back from stressful experiences? How do certain individuals maintain a sense of purpose and direction over the long term, even in the face of adversity? This is the first book to move beyond childhood and adolescence to explore resilience across the lifespan. Coverage ranges from genetic and physiological factors through personal, family, organizational, and community processes. Contributors examine how resilience contributes to health and well-being across the adult life cycle; why—and what happens when—resilience processes fail; ethnic and cultural dimensions of resilience; and ways to enhance adult resilience, including reviews of exemplary programs.

The Psychology of Culture Shock
The Psychology of Culture Shock

Author: Colleen A. Ward

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0415162351

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Incorporates over a decade of new research and material on coping with the causes and consequencs that instigate culture shock, this can occur when a person is transported from a familiar to an alien culture.