STUDYING MENTAL-ILLNESS IN CONTEXT - LOCAL, GLOBAL, OR UNIVERSAL

That are the social and cultural factors that influence the course and outcome of serious mental illness What are the basic processes that i nfluence the diagnosis and assessment of persons Suffering such illnes s, and how do we account for higher levels of misdiagnosis among membe rs of ethnic minorities in the that ed States? A review, of the curren t status of these two major research questions illustrates characteris tics sf current research and the importance of ethnographic studies fo r advancing our understanding of basic processes.