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| Who used criterion validity to show that the DSM was effective in diagnosing Korean children with ADHD? |
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| Where did Lee (2006) take place? |
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| What did Lee (2006) diagnose Korean children with? |
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| What type of validity did Lee (2006) use? |
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| Why might Westerners misinterpret an Asian patient's level of emotion? |
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| In many Asian cultures, people who are going through emotional distress are praised if they remain stoic. |
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| Why might Westerners misinterpret an Arabic patient's level of emotion? |
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| In Arabic cultures, showing a lot of emotion in public is seen as a positive thing. |
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| Why is it important to understand how different cultures view emotional expression? |
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| A patient from a different culture may be seen as abnormal in Western culture, when they would be seen as normal in their own culture. |
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| Who highlighted the differences between Westerners' and Asian people's attitudes to emotional expression? |
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| What did Burnham (1987) find? |
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| Mexican Americans are more likely to experience auditory hallucinations than non-Mexican Americans. |
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| How is hearing voices interpreted differently in some cultures? |
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| It is seen as a special spiritual gift. |
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| How might culture affect the number of people with diagnosed mental illnesses? |
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| If there is a stigma against mentally ill people, people will be less likely to report symptoms and be diagnosed. |
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| How does the stigma against schizophrenia affect Japanese patients? |
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| What are two other ways in which culture may cause misdiagnosis? |
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| Patients may be less likely to confide in someone from another culture; language barriers |
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| In Britain, which groups are more likely to be diagnosed with mental illness than other groups? |
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| West Indians and Irish people. |
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| What did Blake (1973) find? |
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| Black Americans were more likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenic than white Americans, most likely due to overdiagnosis |
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| Which religious group is most likely to suffer depression? |
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| Jewish men are more likely to have depression than Catholic or Protestant men. |
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| What did Flaum et al (1991) find? |
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| The DSM could be unreliable when patients were from one culture, but when they were from other cultures, the unreliability was magnified. |
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| What is an example of a culture-bound syndrome in the DSM? |
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| "Penis panics", where the patient thinks their penis or breasts will retract into their body. This is mostly restricted to Africa and Asia. |
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| How could the DSM reduce its cultural bias? |
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| Consider symptoms which may be culturally misinterpreted separately; remove focus from positive symptoms of schizophrenia to negative ones, as these are more culture-neutral. |
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| What did Lock (1993) find? |
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| Maoris are 2-3 times more likely to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital than white New Zealanders. |
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| What did Brislin (1993) find? |
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| In the West, quick thinking is a sign of intelligence, and speed is a measure on intelligence tests. In Uganda, intelligence is associated with slow and deliberate thought. |
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| What did Lin (1996) find? |
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| The prevalence of schizophrenia is present across cultures. |
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