Joseph Westermeyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 589956 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph Westermeyer |
| PRENOMES | Joseph |
| SOBRENOME | Westermeyer |
| ASSINATURA | WESTERMEYER J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8794-4749 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
A longitudinal study of demographic factors associated with stressors and symptoms in African refugees
The objectives of this study were to assess differences in premigration, transit, and resettlement stressor exposure and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms as a function of demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, ethnicity, age, time in United States) and to examine the concurrent and longitudinal relations between stressor exposure and PTSD symptoms. The sample consisted of adult (18-78 years) Somali and Oromo refugee men and wome…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Its Comorbidities Among American Indian Veterans
A personal journey into cultural psychiatry
The two primary audiences for this article are psychiatrists interested in a cultural psychiatry career and academic as well as healthcare leaders who are in a position to support cultural psychiatry training. In addition to describing my own personal journey through cultural psychiatry, this report includes strategic recommendations for becoming a cultural psychiatrist as well as rationales for supporting a cadre of cultural psychiatrists in the…
Mental Health of Non-gamblers Versus “Normal” Gamblers Among American Indian Veterans
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…
Remission from Pathological Gambling among Hispanics and Native Americans
Lifetime Prevalence of Pathological Gambling Among American Indian and Hispanic American Veterans
Objectives. We examined the prevalence and clinical correlates of pathological gambling among 1228 American Indian and Hispanic American veterans in the southwest and north central regions of the United States. Methods. We surveyed a community sample of American Indian and Hispanic American veterans to obtain data on psychiatric disorder and treatment. Results. American Indian veterans had a 10% lifetime prevalence of pathological gambling. The H…
Somali and Oromo Refugees
Objectives. This cross-sectional, community-based, epidemiological study characterized Somali and Ethiopian (Oromo) refugees in Minnesota to determine torture prevalence and associated problems. Methods. A comprehensive questionnaire was developed, then administered by trained ethnic interviewers to a nonprobability sample of 1134. Measures assessed torture techniques; traumatic events; and social, physical, and psychological problems, including …
Measuring Trauma and Health Status in Refugees
Perceived Barriers to VA Mental Health Care Among Upper Midwest American Indian Veterans
OBJECTIVES: This community-based study was undertaken to understand why Native-American veterans in the Upper Midwest choose not to use VA mental health services despite high rates of certain psychiatric disorders. RESEARCH DESIGN: A sample consisting of 543 Native-American veterans was obtained using a focused-intensive nonprobability sampling method, structured to over-sample urban and female veterans. Data sources included (1) interview (ie, a…
Perceived Barriers to Mental Health Care for American Indian and Hispanic Veterans
This study aimed to identify perceived barriers that might prevent American Indian (AI) and Hispanic American (HA) veterans from seeking mental health services at U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VAMCs), as reported by 100 VA mental-behavioral health staff members. A total of 100 volunteer mental-behavioral health workers were questioned, 50 from Albuquerque VAMC and 50 from Minneapolis VAMC. Participants responded to public announce…
Predictors of Hostility in a Group of Relocated Refugees
The objective of this research was to determine whether early postmigration demographic and psychosocial factors associated with cultural marginality would predict hostility one decade after flight and relocation. In this longitudinal study, participants, who had spent 1 year in a refugee comp, were studied at 1.5, 3.5, and 9 years postrelocation in the United States (i.e., Times 1, 2, and 3). Earlier data were compared with hostility at 9 years.…
Language, Culture and Psychopathology
In recent years, the World Health Organization has developed scheduled interviews in order to make psychiatric diagnoses that are comparable across languages and cultures. These scheduled interviews include the technician-administered Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the psychiatrist-administered Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Work on these interview schedules in numerous languages has demonstra…
Predictors of English fluency among Hmong refugees in Minnesota
The objective of this study was to assess factors associated with later acquisition of English language fluency among Hmong refugees in Minnesota. Fluency in a society's lingua franca is a critical skill in psychosocial adaptation and mental health. A longitudinal study design was used, in which premigration and early postmigration factors were related to subsequent English fluency. The first group of 102 Hmong refugees located in Minnesota by th…
Depression and Other Mental Health Issues
In this book, Aurora Tompar-Tiu and Juliana Sustento-Seneriches present the results of a comprehensive five-year study to reveal the psychological, social, and cultural influences that affect the mental health of Filipino Americans. The book offers practical strategies for treating mental disorders in the Filipino American community and outlines how treatment can be made more accessible and effective. The book is filled with vignettes that speak …
Substance use and other psychiatric disorders among 100 American Indian patients
Psychiatric Epidemiology Across Cultures
Refugee Mental Health in Resettlement Countries
Problems with surveillance methods for alcoholism
Social indicator systems can serve as a social accounting method to guide public policy on alcoholism, utilizing data which are routinely collected at public expense. An attempt to develop an alcoholism social indicator system for Minnesota demonstrated many differences in the coding schemes used by various state agencies and institutions. These findings have relevance to other social indicator systems being developed to assess public policies re…
Response from Dr. Westermeyer
Response from Dr. Westermeyer Joseph Westermeyer CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.1.93-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
Folk medicine in Laos
Prevention of mental disorder among hmong refugees in the U.S
Public health and chronic mental illness
Public health and chronic mental illness. J WestermeyerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.6.667 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Transcultural psychiatry
Sudden Mass Assault with Grenade
Acculturation and mental health
Somali and Oromo Refugees
Objectives. This cross-sectional, community-based, epidemiological study characterized Somali and Ethiopian (Oromo) refugees in Minnesota to determine torture prevalence and associated problems. Methods. A comprehensive questionnaire was developed, then administered by trained ethnic interviewers to a nonprobability sample of 1134. Measures assessed torture techniques; traumatic events; and social, physical, and psychological problems, including …
Language, Culture and Psychopathology
In recent years, the World Health Organization has developed scheduled interviews in order to make psychiatric diagnoses that are comparable across languages and cultures. These scheduled interviews include the technician-administered Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the psychiatrist-administered Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN). Work on these interview schedules in numerous languages has demonstra…
Prevention of mental disorder among hmong refugees in the U.S
Folk medicine in Laos
Psychiatric Epidemiology Across Cultures
Transcultural psychiatry
Part 2
Assassination and Conflict Resolution in Laos
Ten cases of political homicide in Laos were intensively studied, with particular attention to the assassin, the victim, the homicidal event, the provocation, and the social context. Each assassination provided a resolution for a social dilemma which had proven refractory to other means of social problem solving. Certain demographic characteristics and psycho-social correlates of political homicide in Laos resemble those of other cultures
Perceived Barriers to Mental Health Care for American Indian and Hispanic Veterans
This study aimed to identify perceived barriers that might prevent American Indian (AI) and Hispanic American (HA) veterans from seeking mental health services at U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VAMCs), as reported by 100 VA mental-behavioral health staff members. A total of 100 volunteer mental-behavioral health workers were questioned, 50 from Albuquerque VAMC and 50 from Minneapolis VAMC. Participants responded to public announce…
Hmong refugees in Minnesota
Enquete mesurant la relation entre role sexuel, migration, acculturation et maladie mentale chez des Hmong (Thailande) refugies aux Etats-Unis
Lifetime Prevalence of Pathological Gambling Among American Indian and Hispanic American Veterans
Objectives. We examined the prevalence and clinical correlates of pathological gambling among 1228 American Indian and Hispanic American veterans in the southwest and north central regions of the United States. Methods. We surveyed a community sample of American Indian and Hispanic American veterans to obtain data on psychiatric disorder and treatment. Results. American Indian veterans had a 10% lifetime prevalence of pathological gambling. The H…
Public health and chronic mental illness
Public health and chronic mental illness. J WestermeyerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.77.6.667 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Psychiatry in Indochina
Problems with surveillance methods for alcoholism
Social indicator systems can serve as a social accounting method to guide public policy on alcoholism, utilizing data which are routinely collected at public expense. An attempt to develop an alcoholism social indicator system for Minnesota demonstrated many differences in the coding schemes used by various state agencies and institutions. These findings have relevance to other social indicator systems being developed to assess public policies re…
Traditional and Constitutional Law
Research Article| June 01 1971 Traditional and Constitutional Law: A Study of Change in Laos Joseph J. Westermeyer Joseph J. Westermeyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1942) 11 (6): 562–569. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642770 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cit…
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Its Comorbidities Among American Indian Veterans
Firearms, legislation, and suicide prevention
Firearms, legislation, and suicide prevention. J WestermeyerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.74.2.108 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Poppies, Pipes, and People. Opium and Its Use in Laos
Part two
Ecological Sensitivity and Resistance of Cultures in Asia
Ecological influences on culture have been demonstrated by several in vestigators. Many such studies have been done in Asia where two ecological niches extend over vast areas. One of these is the highland or mountainous territory 500 meters above sea level; the other consists of plains and pla teaus under 500 meters. The HRAF files were used to compare cultures in the highlands with those in the lowlands. The files indicate that certain items may…
Indian powerlessness in minnesota
Absentee health workers and community participation
Absentee health workers and community participation. J WestermeyerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.10.1364 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Traditional and Constitutional Law
Research Article| June 01 1971 Traditional and Constitutional Law: A Study of Change in Laos Joseph J. Westermeyer Joseph J. Westermeyer Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1942) 11 (6): 562–569. https://doi.org/10.2307/2642770 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cit…
Absentee health workers and community participation
Absentee health workers and community participation. J WestermeyerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.10.1364 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Options regarding alcohol use among the Chippewa
Chippewa people drink alochol in “white” or “Indian” fashion, or abstain from it. Their choices are related to individual factors (age, sex, family role, past experience) and to social contexts. Depending on such contexts, each category automatically evokes certain social consequences. Certain advantages and disadvantages thereby accrue to each option
Lao buddhism, mental health, and contemporary implications
Grenade-Amok in Laos
Most studies of amok have concentrated on surviving individuals brought to court or hospital. Thus, a biased sampling of such individuals has resulted. In this study anthropologic field techniques were employed to obtain extensive data on grenade- amok in Laos, including cases in which the individual died as a result of his violent behaviour. Data on premorbid state, precipitating events, and postmorbid psychopathology were collected for eighteen…
Indian powerlessness in minnesota
Assassination and Conflict Resolution in Laos
Ten cases of political homicide in Laos were intensively studied, with particular attention to the assassin, the victim, the homicidal event, the provocation, and the social context. Each assassination provided a resolution for a social dilemma which had proven refractory to other means of social problem solving. Certain demographic characteristics and psycho-social correlates of political homicide in Laos resemble those of other cultures
Cross Cultural Consultation for Mental Health Planning
Role, ritual, and the grynnflnk
While cohabitation among middle-class youth has been increasing, there has been little exploration of the influence of this change on the extended kin system. This paper examines the formal recognition of cohabitation, via role change and ritual, and introduces terminology to describe a relationship heretofore unaccounted for in our vocabulary
Psychiatry in Indochina
Sex Roles At the Indian-Majority Interface in Minnesota
Recently Indian men have played a major role in the new activist—sometimes militant—organisations acting on behalf of Indian people. However, this major role contrasts markedly with the situation usually encountered in most social institutions. There one finds more Indian women in influential positions, with more Indian men relegated to custodial positions. This paper addresses the patterns and distribution of this bias against Indian men. It con…
Indigenous and expatriate addicts in Laos
Ecological Sensitivity and Resistance of Cultures in Asia
Ecological influences on culture have been demonstrated by several in vestigators. Many such studies have been done in Asia where two ecological niches extend over vast areas. One of these is the highland or mountainous territory 500 meters above sea level; the other consists of plains and pla teaus under 500 meters. The HRAF files were used to compare cultures in the highlands with those in the lowlands. The files indicate that certain items may…
Ethnic Identity Problems Among Ten Indian Psychiatric Patients
Folk concepts of mental disorder among the Lao
Part two
Abstracts and Reviews
Part 2
Firearms, legislation, and suicide prevention
Firearms, legislation, and suicide prevention. J WestermeyerCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.74.2.108 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Poppies, Pipes, and People. Opium and Its Use in Laos
Acculturation and mental health
Hmong refugees in Minnesota
Enquete mesurant la relation entre role sexuel, migration, acculturation et maladie mentale chez des Hmong (Thailande) refugies aux Etats-Unis
Sudden Mass Assault with Grenade
Public health aspects of mental health
The American Journal of Public Health has reflected the relationship of public health to the field of mental health over its 75-year history. The earliest volumes of the Journal addressed movements and concerns within public mental health. Quantitative analysis of mental health articles shows wide fluctuations over the last 75 years, probably due to variations in federal funding for mental health research. Topical emphases in the Journal have inc…
Prevention of mental disorder among hmong refugees in the U.S
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