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Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups: Theory, Research, and Practice (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement) by Frederick T.L. Leong, Mark M. Leach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Suicide is increasingly understood and predicted as an intersection of biological, psychological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors. We have some basic knowledge of these factors and how they interact, but presently we know very little about how culture can play a role as a variable that influences suicide. Suicide Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups will go a long way towards filling that gap by pulling together cutting edge empirical research from general cultural diversity literature and applying it to suicide assessment, treatment, and prevention theory and practice. By looking outside of the limited cross-cultural studies done within suicidal populations, the contributors – all established experts in both multicultural counseling and suicidology – expand the available empirical literature base in order to provide a deeper look into how culture can act as an important catalyst in suicidal intentions. Following theoretical overviews, the text focuses on six broad ethic groups classified in the literature (African American, American Indian, Asian American, European American, Hawaiian & Pacific Islander, and Hispanic), with a main chapter devoted to each, relating each cult

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Author

Frederick T.L. Leong, Mark M. Leach

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781135916800

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Mathematics