Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific Historical and Cultural Perspe
This far-reaching volume analyzes the social, cultural, political, and economic factors contributing to mental health issues and shaping treatment options in the Asian and Pacific world. Multiple lenses examine complex experiences and needs in this vast r
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Harry Minas Milton Lewis Editors
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific Historical and Cultural Perspectives
International and Cultural Psychology Series editor Anthony J. Marsella, Alpharetta, Georgia, USA
Explores problems and challenges to mental health, psychosocial wellbeing, human growth and development, and human welfare that are emerging from our contemporary global context. It advances in psychological knowledge regarding the nature and consequences of the many social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental events and forces that affect individuals and communities throughout the world. The series covers areas like therapy, assessment, organizational psychology, community psychology, gender, child development, and specific disorders. In addition, it addresses major global challenges such as poverty, peace, urbanization, modernization, refugees, and migration. The series acknowledges the multidisciplinary, multisectoral, and multicultural nature of the global context of our lives, and publishes books that reflect this reality. Publish your next book in this series! Send your manuscript to Series Editor: Anthony J. Marsella, [email protected].
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6089
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Editors Harry Minas Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit, Centre for Mental Health Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Parkville Australia
Milton Lewis The Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney Australia
ISSN 1574-0455 ISSN 2197-7984 (electronic) International and Cultural Psychology ISBN 978-1-4899-7997-1 ISBN 978-1-4899-7999-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-7999-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957493 © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free
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