[Use of a rating scale in transcultural psychiatry].

A propos de l'utilisation d'une échelle d'évaluation en psychiatrie transculturelle

Publisher: Masson Country of Publication: France NLM ID: 7505643 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0013-7006 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00137006 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Encephale Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: Paris Masson
Original Publication: 1906-1996: Paris : Delarue

Cross-Cultural Comparison* ; Cultural Characteristics* ; Culture* ; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales*; Acting Out ; Black or African American ; Black People ; Community Psychiatry ; Depression/diagnosis ; Ethnicity ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Psychometrics ; Senegal

The Psychopharmacological Studies Group of Fann, Dakar, considered the cultural expression of mental illness as it would help for a new definition of the nosographic frames, and inside of them, the appreciation of symptoms. This new definition would be applied "universally" if it may be considered that some symptoms are "culture-free" and others deeply marked by the discourse held by the person or by his social group. The use of valuation scales for symptomatic change during a treatment (here anti-depressive one) become harder by the undifferenciation of these two types of symptoms. Further, it may exist nosographic masks which can hide more curable substructures ; as often happens here, in masked depressions when the presented symptoms are those of acute or chronic psychotic manifestations. The efficacy of depressive treatment is then remarkable.

Date Created: 19750101 Date Completed: 19751218 Latest Revision: 20221207

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