Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Culture, society, and personality
  • Introduction : The characteristics of Chinese culture / David Y.H. Wu and Wen-Shing Tseng
  • The emergence of the new Chinese culture / Godwin C. Chu
  • The Confucian paradigm of man : a sociological view / Ambrose Y.C. King and Michael H. Bond
  • A preliminary study of the character traits of the Chinese / Song Weizhen
  • Social change, religious movements, and personality adjustment : an anthropological view / Yih-yuan Li
  • Traditional Chinese beliefs and attitudes toward mental illness / T'ien Ju-k'and
  • Part II. Family and child
  • The effect of family on the mental health of the Chinese people / Li Xintian
  • The Chinese family : relations, problems, and therapy / Jing Hsu
  • Child training in Chinese culture / David Y.H. Wu
  • Characteristics of temperament in Chinese infants and young children / Chen-Chin Hsu
  • The one-child-per-family policy : a psychological perspective / Tao Kuotai and Chiu Jing-Hwa
  • Child mental health and elementary schools in Shanghai / Xu Taoyuan
  • Part III. Adjustment in different settings
  • Language and identity : the case of Chinese in Singapore / Eddie C.Y. Kuo
  • Social stress and coping behavior in Hong Kong / Rance P.L. Lee
  • Chinese adaptation in Hawaii : some examples / Kwong-yen Lum and Walter F. Char
  • Part IV. Mental health problems
  • Mental health in Singapore and its relation to Chinese culture / Wing Foo Tsoi
  • Psychiatric pathology among Chinese immigrants in Victoria, Australia / Edmond Chiu and Eng-Seong Tan
  • Sociocultural changes and prevalence of mental disorders in Taiwan / Eng-Kung Yeh
  • An overview of psychopathology in Hong Kong with special reference to somatic presentation / Fanny M. Cheung
  • An epidemiological study of child mental health problems in Nanjing District / Yu Lian
  • An investigation of minimal brain disorders among primary school students in the Beijing area / Yang Xiaoling
  • Some psychological problems manifested by neurotic patients : Shanghi examples / Yan Heqin
  • Part V. Management and prevention of mental illness
  • The mental health delivery system in Shanghai / Xia Zhenyi
  • The mental health home care program : Beijing's rural Haidian District / Shen Yucun
  • Part VI. Summary and suggestions for the future
  • Mental disorders and psychiatry in Chinese culture : characteristic features and major issues / Tsung-yi Lin
  • Directions for future study / Wen-Shing Tseng and David Y.H. Wu.