Cultural factors in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents
CULTURAL FACTORS
What is a disorder?
Nature of disorder 2
Nature of disorder 3
Social/cultural factors influence “prevalence” of a disorder
Differences prevalence
ADHD PREVALENCE
Factors in prevalence
ADHD
Symptoms of disorder
What is the nature of the disorder?
Interventions : if external influence
Conceptualization of disorder determines intervention
Medications : ADHD
Medications
Psychotropic medications
Acculturation and transculturation
Acculturation
US-Mexico Border study of adolescents (Pumariega et al, 1992)
Acculturation adolescents
U.California Irvine Mental Disorders in Primary Care (Escobar et al, 1998)
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