Cultural differences in psychological disorders?

Question

What are the symptoms cultural differences in psychological Disorders?
What are the causes?
What are the treatments?

Answer 1

Your question is a bit confusing. You can refer to the DSM (if you don't have your own, you can usually find one at a library in the reference section) regarding disorders that are unique to specific cultures. You can also find some statistics in there as well as online indicating incidence rates amongst individuals of different races.
The general rule of thumb is as follows:
- Latino populations (and to a degree, Native American people) are more likely to express psychological problems physically (such as complaining about a sore back when severely stressed psychologically).
- African American people, as well as low income people of any race or ethnicity, are least likely to see a mental health specialist (they tend to see an M.D. if it comes to that).
- Asian cultures (especially China and Japan) have a unique set of disorders similar to agoraphobia and social phobia that involves fears and discomfort in crowds of people, fear of offending others with their sweat or body odor, and not being able to get to a bathroom if they need to.

I hope that information was at least a bit helpful, but without more specific information, I cannot provide a more specific response. Good luck!

Answer 2

Blacks and Latins are more likely to be obese due to cultural differences... Whites are more likely to be anorexic and the likes... from the very limited sample I've ran into in real life.. (in other words.. not scientific.... just from experience) Red heads seem to be more likely to be Bi-Polar....

other than that I'm not sure.

Answer 3

Thats a pretty broad question, is there a specific type of disorder or type of disorders i.e. depression, schizophrenia, addiction...?

Answer 4

google the question