Diagnostic Patterns of Social Phobia
Autor: | M. Asai, Helen H. Kyomen, Wen-Shing Tseng, D. G. Mclaughlin, K. Kitanishi |
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Rok vydání: | 1992 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Cross-Cultural Comparison Male Gerontology Attitude of Health Personnel Ethnic group Professional practice Avoidant personality disorder behavioral disciplines and activities Hawaii Japan Terminology as Topic mental disorders Ethnicity medicine Humans Tokyo health care economics and organizations Social influence Psychiatry Psychiatry education Asian Internship and Residency medicine.disease Cross-cultural studies United States Psychiatry and Mental health Phobic Disorders Female Psychology Anxiety disorder Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 180:380-385 |
ISSN: | 0022-3018 |
DOI: | 10.1097/00005053-199206000-00007 |
Popis: | A comparison was made of the diagnosis of social phobia by Japanese psychiatrists in Tokyo and American psychiatrists in Hawaii. A brief segment of videotaped interviews and written case histories of four Japanese patients from Tokyo and two Japanese-American patients from Hawaii, who were clinically diagnosed with social phobia, were presented to the clinicians for their diagnosis. Japanese psychiatrists tended to diagnose social phobia congruently for the Japanese cases but not for the Japanese-American cases. American psychiatrists tended to diagnose various categories including anxiety disorder and avoidant personality disorder, in addition to social phobia, disregarding the ethnic background of the patients. This illustrates that the diagnostic pattern for social phobia varied considerably between psychiatrists of these two countries. The reasons considered are the patient's cardinal symptom manifestation, style of problems presentation, as well as the clinician's professional orientation and familiarity to this particular disorder. |
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