東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Chinese Families and Mental Illness:...

An, Linh My.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Chinese Families and Mental Illness: The Experiences of Immigrant Chinese Women Who Provide Care to a Family Member with a Mental Illness in New York City.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chinese Families and Mental Illness: The Experiences of Immigrant Chinese Women Who Provide Care to a Family Member with a Mental Illness in New York City./
Author:	An, Linh My.
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-09A(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3623003
ISBN:	9781303952104

Chinese Families and Mental Illness: The Experiences of Immigrant Chinese Women Who Provide Care to a Family Member with a Mental Illness in New York City.
An, Linh My.

Chinese Families and Mental Illness: The Experiences of Immigrant Chinese Women Who Provide Care to a Family Member with a Mental Illness in New York City. - 275 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation is an intimate ethnography of immigrant Chinese women's experiences as caregivers to family members with mental illness in New York City. It examines how cultural ideals, the individual particularities of respondents and their ill relatives, and their interactions with institutions affect the construction and enactment of caregiving in everyday life.

ISBN: 9781303952104Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Chinese Families and Mental Illness: The Experiences of Immigrant Chinese Women Who Provide Care to a Family Member with a Mental Illness in New York City.
LDR:03592nmm a2200349 4500 001 2063680
005 20151028114502.5
008 170521s2014 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781303952104
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3623003
035 $a AAI3623003
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a An, Linh My. $3 3178218
245 1 0 $a Chinese Families and Mental Illness: The Experiences of Immigrant Chinese Women Who Provide Care to a Family Member with a Mental Illness in New York City.
300 $a 275 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-09(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Douglas W. Hollan.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2014.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a This dissertation is an intimate ethnography of immigrant Chinese women's experiences as caregivers to family members with mental illness in New York City. It examines how cultural ideals, the individual particularities of respondents and their ill relatives, and their interactions with institutions affect the construction and enactment of caregiving in everyday life.
520 $a Previous research on families and mental illness has predominantly been based on quantitative studies of Euro-American participants and tends to highlight the negative aspects of caregiving. Thus, this dissertation contributes to the limited qualitative research on minority caregivers. Utilizing ethnographic observations and interviews over a three-year period, the study finds that there is a strong cultural ethos of providing care to mentally ill family members, and that caregiving is often framed as a duty that is expressed through instrumental support. The enactment of these obligations and the extent of respondents' involvement in care, however, are mediated by other factors, including the willingness of the care recipient to accept help, the caregiver's competing family responsibilities, and the manageability of illness symptoms. In particular, respondents' limited English proficiency and unfamiliarity with the mental health system creates difficulties in coping and advocating that are distinct from the ones faced by Euro-American caregivers. However, using a Chinese family support group as social capital, respondents are able to meet their needs for information on etiology and treatment of mental illness; obtain practical advice on how to respond and manage difficult symptoms and situations; acquire information on community resources; and receive assistance with advocacy and emotional support.
520 $a While past anthropological inquires of mental illness have emphasized context and how individuals interpret their experiences, these studies have prioritized the subjective experience of the ill individual. As such, they have underemphasized and underexplored how mental illness can impact family members' lives and how families co-construct shared perspectives of mental illness, normalcy, and recovery. In shifting the unit of analysis away from mentally ill individuals to their family members, this dissertation illuminates the more social aspects of mental illness, and advances methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of this topic in anthropology.
590 $a School code: 0031.
650 4 $a Cultural anthropology. $3 2122764
650 4 $a Asian American studies. $3 2122841
650 4 $a Individual & family studies. $3 2122770
650 4 $a Womens studies. $3 2122688
650 4 $a Mental health. $3 534751
690 $a 0326
690 $a 0343
690 $a 0628
690 $a 0453
690 $a 0347
710 2 $a University of California, Los Angeles. $b Anthropology. $3 2096038
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 75-09A(E).
790 $a 0031
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2014
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3623003