cultural bound diagnosis and issues

Question 1

who illustrated how cultural bound syndrome could be an issue

Answer 1

malgady

Question 2

what did malgady suggest

Answer 2

difference in interpritation of hearing voices from usa and the west would see it as a symptom of schizophrenia where as in other cultures such as in costa rica it ios considered an hounour and viewd as if you ancestors are talking to you

Question 3

what does malgadys research show may happen due to different cultural interpretation

Answer 3

misdiagnosis

Question 4

what is an example of a cultural bound syndrome

Answer 4

koro

Question 5

what is koro

Answer 5

koro is the belife of some cultures that your external genitallia are gouing to shrink and soweights are placed on these external genetalia

Question 6

what is anouther example of a culture bound syndrome

Answer 6

ghost sickness

Question 7

what is ghost sickness

Answer 7

obsession with death and nightmares, loss of appitite, and feelings of suffication and terror

Question 8

what is anouther example of a cultural norm steryotype

Answer 8

cooper

Question 9

what did cooper find

Answer 9

examined 250 psych paitents admissions at the hospital in new york and in london. watched clinical interviews that used the DSM 2 and found new yourk had an 8 times more fequent diagnosis of schizophrenia compared to bi-polar disorder however in london their was a one to one ratio

Question 10

what is nouther reasearch that illustrates cultural bound disorders

Answer 10

lin

Question 11

what did lin find

Answer 11

found that when looking at symptoms of schizophrenia there were more similarities across different cultures than differences suggestingcultural differences sugessting cultural differnaces do not lead to differance in diagnosis

Question 12

give evidance to suugest gender effects diagnosis

Answer 12

NICE suggests that women are more likely to be treated for a mental illness than men as women are more willing to seek help than men