Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Arab Americans : Culture, Development, and Health / [E-Book]

Chapter 1: Contexts of Immigration and Diversity: Biopsychosocial implications for Arab Americans -- Section I: Arab American Culture: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Identity and Discrimination -- Chapter 3: Intergenerational Relations -- Chapter 4: Gender and Racialized Experience at Work -- Chapter 5: Cultural Sources and Expressions of Stigma around Health -- Chapter 6: Adapting an Alzheimer's Disease Care Intervention to Arab American Families -- Part II: Psychology and Arab Americans: An Introduction -- Chapter 7: Developmental Psychology and Arab Americans -- Chapter 8: Acculturation -- Chapter 9: Refugees -- Chapter 10:Mental Health Risks -- Chapter 11: Mental Health Interventions and Resilience in Arab Americans -- Part III Public Health: Primary and Secondary Data Sources: An Introduction -- Chapter 12: Primary and secondary data sources -- Chapter 13: Mortality -- Chapter 14: Chronic health conditions and their risk factors -- Chapter 15: Health Behaviors -- Chapter 16: Stress and health -- Chapter 17: Future strategies to improve health.

The biopsychosocial study of Arab Americans yields compelling insights into innovative theoretical and applied initiatives. In the context of a growing population of Arab Americans, coupled with the current tenure of xenophobia and exposed structural racism in the US, clinical and community practitioners must be attuned to their clients of Arab ancestry, whose experiences, development, and health concerns are distinctly different than that of their White counterparts. This second edition, with its uniquely interwoven sections of culture, psychosocial development, and health and disease, provides a rich overview of timely, critical topics. The audience for the text includes counselors, social workers, psychologists, nurses, psychiatrists, sociologists, and any other public and mental health practitioners, researchers, and policy makers who work with and on behalf of clients and patients of Arab descent. The authors represent a team of leading experts spanning disciplines of sociology, clinical mental health, and community public health. .