Wen-Shing Tseng
Biographic Data
| ID | 135674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wen-Shing Tseng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wen-Shing |
| FAMILY NAME | Tseng |
| SIGNATURE | TSENG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | W.P.A. Transcultural Psychiatry Section University of Hawaii 1356 Lusitana Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In memoriam: Tsung-Yi Lin (1920—2010)
Cultural Competence in Health Care
Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry
Cultural psychiatry is concerned with understanding the impact of social and cultural differences and similarities on mental illness and its treatments. A person's cultural characteristics can often lead to misunderstandings, influenced by language, non-verbal styles, codes of etiquette and assumptions. There may also be perceived misconceptions and differences in beliefs and values. In order to provide appropriate, sensitive and acceptable servi…
From Peculiar Psychiatric Disorders through Culture-bound Syndromes to Culture-related Specific Syndromes
This article reviews the historical evolution and progress of nosological concepts from exotic psychiatric disorders and culture-bound syndromes to culture-related specific syndromes. Approaches to classification and subgrouping these disorders are disccused and an argument offered for finding a place for culturally unique syndromes in the existing classification system. The characteristics of various syndromes are elaborated and suggestions are …
Clinician's guide to cultural psychiatry
Mental Health in Asia: Social Improvements and Challenges
Remarkable improvements in economic conditions and a considerable upgrade in the quality of life have been observed in many parts of Asia during the past several decades. At the same time, many mental health challenges face the people of Asia. Various social mental health indexes are reviewed here, with available data from China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and other Asian societies. The data are compared with data from the United States, …
Culture and Psychotherapy: Review and Practical Guidelines
In this overview, the subject of culture and psychotherapy is considered broadly from five perspectives: (i) culture-embedded indigenous healing practices, (ii) culture-influenced ‘unique’ psychotherapies, (iii) cultural elements in ‘mainstream’ therapies, (iv) the practice of psychotherapy in different societies, and (v) intercultural psychotherapy. Various modes of therapy are compared with respect to their basic orientations, techniques and me…
Psychoanalysis in China: Literary Transformations 1919-1949. Jingyuan Zhang
Multi-Cultural Study of Minor Psychiatric Disorders in Asia: Symptom Manifestations
Patients with minor psychiatric disorders, including neuroses, situational adjustment reaction or acute emotional reaction, were investigated using symptom questionnaires at five research sites in Asia including: Chiang-Mai, Thailand; Bali, Indonesia; Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan, China; Shanghai, China; and Tokyo, Japan. The results revealed that the symptom profiles differ significantly among groups of different settings indicating that sociocultural bac…
Chinese culture and mental health
Cross-Cultural Differences in Parent-Child Assessment: U.S.a. and Japan
Videotaped family interactions illustrating parent-child behaviour from American and Japanese clinical samples were assessed by psychiatrists and medical students in Hawaii and Tokyo, to study the effects of culture on the evaluation of behaviour. The results suggest that cultural factors significantly influence the assessment of inter personal behaviour, particularly highly overt and culturally patterned behaviour, e.g. parent-child roles and fu…
Abstracts and Reviews: 2 East Asia
Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Clinic Utilization a Cross-Cultural Study in Hawaii
Data was obtained by ethnic status from 411 outpatients at a psychiatric clinic in Honolulu, Hawaii, and were then analyzed according to demographic variables, welfare status, source of referral, primary compliants or symptoms, diagnosis, and duration of treatment received. Clinic utilization was highly related to ethnicity, with Caucasians highly over-represented in proportion to the population, and other groups, especially Japanese, being great…
Abstracts and Reviews: 7 News and Views
Adjustment in Intercultural Marriage
Family Relations in Classic Chinese Opera
Chinese Culture, Personality Formation and Mental Illness
From Peculiar Psychiatric Disorders through Culture-bound Syndromes to Culture-related Specific Syndromes
This article reviews the historical evolution and progress of nosological concepts from exotic psychiatric disorders and culture-bound syndromes to culture-related specific syndromes. Approaches to classification and subgrouping these disorders are disccused and an argument offered for finding a place for culturally unique syndromes in the existing classification system. The characteristics of various syndromes are elaborated and suggestions are …
Family Relations in Classic Chinese Opera
Chinese Culture, Personality Formation and Mental Illness
Family Relations in Classic Chinese Opera
Cultural Aspects of Psychiatric Clinic Utilization a Cross-Cultural Study in Hawaii
Data was obtained by ethnic status from 411 outpatients at a psychiatric clinic in Honolulu, Hawaii, and were then analyzed according to demographic variables, welfare status, source of referral, primary compliants or symptoms, diagnosis, and duration of treatment received. Clinic utilization was highly related to ethnicity, with Caucasians highly over-represented in proportion to the population, and other groups, especially Japanese, being great…
Abstracts and Reviews: 7 News and Views
Adjustment in Intercultural Marriage
Abstracts and Reviews: 2 East Asia
Cross-Cultural Differences in Parent-Child Assessment: U.S.a. and Japan
Videotaped family interactions illustrating parent-child behaviour from American and Japanese clinical samples were assessed by psychiatrists and medical students in Hawaii and Tokyo, to study the effects of culture on the evaluation of behaviour. The results suggest that cultural factors significantly influence the assessment of inter personal behaviour, particularly highly overt and culturally patterned behaviour, e.g. parent-child roles and fu…
Chinese culture and mental health
Multi-Cultural Study of Minor Psychiatric Disorders in Asia: Symptom Manifestations
Patients with minor psychiatric disorders, including neuroses, situational adjustment reaction or acute emotional reaction, were investigated using symptom questionnaires at five research sites in Asia including: Chiang-Mai, Thailand; Bali, Indonesia; Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan, China; Shanghai, China; and Tokyo, Japan. The results revealed that the symptom profiles differ significantly among groups of different settings indicating that sociocultural bac…
Psychoanalysis in China: Literary Transformations 1919-1949. Jingyuan Zhang
Culture and Psychotherapy: Review and Practical Guidelines
In this overview, the subject of culture and psychotherapy is considered broadly from five perspectives: (i) culture-embedded indigenous healing practices, (ii) culture-influenced ‘unique’ psychotherapies, (iii) cultural elements in ‘mainstream’ therapies, (iv) the practice of psychotherapy in different societies, and (v) intercultural psychotherapy. Various modes of therapy are compared with respect to their basic orientations, techniques and me…
Mental Health in Asia: Social Improvements and Challenges
Remarkable improvements in economic conditions and a considerable upgrade in the quality of life have been observed in many parts of Asia during the past several decades. At the same time, many mental health challenges face the people of Asia. Various social mental health indexes are reviewed here, with available data from China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and other Asian societies. The data are compared with data from the United States, …
Clinician's guide to cultural psychiatry
From Peculiar Psychiatric Disorders through Culture-bound Syndromes to Culture-related Specific Syndromes
This article reviews the historical evolution and progress of nosological concepts from exotic psychiatric disorders and culture-bound syndromes to culture-related specific syndromes. Approaches to classification and subgrouping these disorders are disccused and an argument offered for finding a place for culturally unique syndromes in the existing classification system. The characteristics of various syndromes are elaborated and suggestions are …
Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry
Cultural psychiatry is concerned with understanding the impact of social and cultural differences and similarities on mental illness and its treatments. A person's cultural characteristics can often lead to misunderstandings, influenced by language, non-verbal styles, codes of etiquette and assumptions. There may also be perceived misconceptions and differences in beliefs and values. In order to provide appropriate, sensitive and acceptable servi…
Cultural Competence in Health Care
In memoriam: Tsung-Yi Lin (1920—2010)
Psychology (13 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (6 works) · China (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)