Introducing a psychological agenda for understanding somatic symptoms--an area of conflict for clinicians in relation to patients in a multicultural community.
Culturally capable care requires that clinicians possess insights into patients' reasoning about illness. It is universally common for emotional distress to be expressed in terms of somatic symptoms. Converting meanings of illness from a somatic to a psychological agenda for understanding distress m...
| Publicado en: | Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 386 - 406 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Sep2008
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