Resource Tag: SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS

Suicide research, claims White, may produce insights useful in understanding other social problems like alcohol abuse, violence, & mental disorders. He views suicide as a social event shaped in complex ways by culture–by shared beliefs & practices which give meaning to social life. In this chapter the author examines the effect of social change on […]

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This brief review discusses a report on the sociology of mental illness in New Caledonia, a French island in the South Pacific. A table of admission rates for the main ethnic groups & diagnostic categories is presented. New Caledonia is said to be of particular interest for transcultural psychiatry due to rapid socioeconomic change & […]