| Acknowledgments | |
| Contributors | |
| Preface | |
| Sect. I | Cultural Matrices of the Psychiatric Encounter | |
| Theoretical Considerations | |
| 1 | Culture in Clinical Psychiatry | 3 |
| Practical Considerations | |
| 2 | Psychiatric Epidemiology | 43 |
| 3 | Culture-Bound Syndromes | 75 |
| Selected Glossary of Ethnic Terms for Folk Illnesses | 94 |
| 4 | Cross-Cultural Psychotherapy | 101 |
| 5 | Cross-Cultural Psychiatric Assessment | 125 |
| Sect. II | Culture and Clinical Care | |
| African Americans | |
| 6 | Psychiatric Care of African Americans | 147 |
| 7 | Separation and Loss in African American Children: Clinical Perspectives | 175 |
| American Indians and Alaska Natives | |
| 8 | Psychiatric Care of American Indians and Alaska Natives | 189 |
| Glossary of Related Terms | 242 |
| Asian Americans | |
| 9 | Psychiatric Care of Chinese Americans | 245 |
| 10 | Psychiatric Care of Indochinese Americans | 281 |
| 11 | Psychiatric Care of Japanese Americans | 305 |
| 12 | Psychiatric Care of Korean Americans | 347 |
| 13 | Psychiatric Care of Pilipino Americans | 377 |
| 14 | Ethnopsychopharmacology | 413 |
| Hispanics | |
| 15 | Psychiatric Care of Mexican Americans | 431 |
| 16 | Psychiatric Care of Puerto Ricans | 467 |
| Women | |
| 17 | Culture and Psychiatric Care of Women | 501 |
| The Elderly | |
| 18 | Psychiatric Care of Ethnic Elders | 517 |
| Gay Men and Lesbians | |
| 19 | Cultural Considerations in the Psychiatric Care of Gay Men and Lesbians | 553 |
| AIDS Among Minorities in the United States | |
| 20 | The Mental Health Impact of AIDS on Ethnic Minorities | 573 |
| Glossaries of Ethnic Terms | |
| Glossary of Chinese Terms | 589 |
| Glossary of Japanese Terms | 593 |
| Glossary of Korean Terms | 595 |
| Glossary of Pilipino and Related Terms | 597 |
| Glossary of Mexican Terms | 603 |
| Glossary of Puerto Rican Terms | 605 |
| Index | 607 |