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Article: Depression and Other Mental Health Issues: The Filipino American Experience
- Article from:
- The International Migration Review
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Center for Migration Studies Spring 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Depression and Other Mental Health Isses: The Filipino American Expe. By Aurora Tompar-Tu and Juliana Sustento-Seneriches. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994.
JOSEPH WESTERMEYER University of Minnesota
These psychiatrist-authors accomplished the difficult task of taking the reader simultaneously on two intellectual journeys. First, they thoroughly review the cultural, historical and social context of Filipino-American migration over the last century. Second, they study common forms of maladjustment and psychopathology afflicting some Filipino Americans during this geographic-cultural transition.
Nonclinicians could be intimidated by the psychiatric focus presaged in the tide. ...